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From: daford@watdragon.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 40 folder problem
Message-ID: <2110@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Jan-87 14:32:12 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 18 14:32:12 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Jan-87 01:35:50 EST
References: <8701180911.AA22599@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <8701180911.AA22599@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET writes:
> I think ATARI is totally wrong with their attitude towards the 40
> folder problem. It will hurt sales and it does render the harddisk
> useless in a lot of cases. It hasn't be bad for ST sales here yet
> because it has been hushed up in Europe, particularly in the german
> speaking part, in the 5-6 german computer mags I read, I saw 1 (>ONE<)
...
>   Most people which know that the problem exists (including myself)
> have been holding quite, expecting ATARI to provide some kind of fix
> within resonable time...but the gist of the discussion over the last
> few weeks is: that there will be NO fix in the near future(3-4 months)

Exactly!  I am beginning to feel the pinch of the 40 folder limit on
my hard drive (20meg) and I've barely scratched its capacity (~5meg).
If I was in Atari's shoes I would be quiet too, for if I had know about the
limit I would probably not have purchased my machine. (my gawd! I might have
gotten a IBM (gag) PC clone (cough)).  I would suppose they are working
as fast as they can and after all fixes don't magically drop from the sky.
If they had a fix they would tell us.

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Daniel A. Ford 					daford@watdragon.uucp
CS Department                         daford%watdragon@waterloo.csnet
U. of Waterloo       daford%watdragon%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa