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From: dlugose@uncecs.edu (Dan Dlugose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How can I have an HC stack check if it's running from a hard disk?
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.173329.10653@uncecs.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 17:33:29 GMT
References: <1991Apr13.181917.20797@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <1991Apr13.181917.20797@spool.cs.wisc.edu> elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu (James Elliott) writes:
>I have a HyperCard stack I'm creating as an entry for a contest, which
>makes intensive use of sampled sounds. I would like to have it test to
>see if it is being run from a floppy and warn the user that
>performance will be miserable if that happens to be the case (because
>floppy access mangles sound output horribly). How can I do this?
 
  In the startup script, put

  on openstack
     if the diskspace < 1200000 then
        -- either your hard disk is chock full and you need to
        -- do something else or warn the user of this possibility 
        answer "This needs to run on a hard disk" with
           "continue" or "quit"
      end if
   end openstack

Dan Dlugose
UNC Educational Computing Service
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