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From: gordon@sage.cs.reading.Ac.Uk (Simon Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: CP/M emulator - a query
Message-ID: <189@sage.cs.reading.Ac.Uk>
Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 17:16:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: sage.189
Posted: Fri Jun 20 17:16:17 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 24-Jun-86 04:23:15 EDT
References: <543@snow.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: gordon@sage.UUCP (Simon Gordon)
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Reading Univ. UK. (sage)
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In article <543@snow.warwick.UUCP> fkc@snow.UUCP (Frank K Carver) writes:
>[ A> <sigh> ]
>
>a) The program INIT if run from drive A: as `INIT A:' will try to write
>   to the utilities disk (bad idea I think)
>b) I only have a single disk drive, and it does not prompt for swapping
>   if I give it `INIT B:'

thats write, despite what the documentation says, i only works properly
if you have a double disk system (like me) - and then you can init
both single or double sisded disks ok.

>c) I have a few ramdisks, but none seem to be `INIT'able with eg.
>   `INIT D:'

I had this problem too, using real disks the disk must be freshly formated
not just empty (ie all files deleted) otherwise init says 'not empty disk'.
It presumably does a check to see what is on the disk somewhere. In that
case, it should be possible to modify the source code of a ram disk to set
it self up as needed.

It would have been nice if the emulator set up all free mem as a ram disk
anyway - as it wont be needed for anything else.

By the way, if you got the bits from mikes, does that mean you live in
the southend area (i do).
My home address is 51 Chapel Lane, Benfleet, Essex, SS7 2PW
                   Tel 0702 557468
I am at Reading Univ doing a CS degree

If you do live near, perhaps you might like to drop in some time (after july
the 3rd when term ends) and we could swap PD software etc.

Simon Gordon

Gordon@sage@reading