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From: consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg)
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Subject: Re: Bridgeboard ABoot & MakeAB
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Date: 18 Jun 91 19:45:35 GMT
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In article <32988@rouge.usl.edu>, cac5961@rouge.usl.edu (Castor
Christian A) writes:
|>   What is the purpose of the MakeAB command?   From the
|>only documentation (a vague readme file) that came with 
|>my Janus upgrade and from a little experimentation, it
|>seems that it creates a huge file refered as a 'fake'
|>drive.  What do you do with this big monster?  :-)
|>Any clue, hint, suggestion, or comment will be greatly
|>appreciated.   * Thanx * .

What it does it create a 'virtual' disk drive that you can use as a boot
device.
In the PC drawer (somewhere) there is a small file that contains the AmigaDOS
pathname for this file, and when the Janus software boots itself up it looks in
this file, links itself to it and uses it as the "C:" drive.  You'll
recall that
C: is usually a hard disk on MSDOS systems, so you get a 'virtual' hard disk!

Works wonders for those of us who couldn't get our XT hard drives to
work on the
IBM side.

|>  Christian Castor - cac5961@usl.edu or chris@usl.edu -  CIS: 73030,2734  
                

-Kris

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