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From: at@laura.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: HDSCAN (and GEMBOOT.PRG)
Message-ID: <16@laura.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 07:17:50 EST
Article-I.D.: laura.16
Posted: Mon Apr  6 07:17:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 03:20:44 EST
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Reply-To: at@laura.UUCP (Andreas Toenne)
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Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany
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Keywords: 40 folder hard disk
Summary: It works!!!

I've tested GEMBOOT.PRG well and found no problems at all.
(Test with 180! folders on one partition)
Gemboot.prg scans the HD and creates some extra directory space for each
folder found. This additional space is linked with the existing 3K space
in the gemdos data area. This means that the 40 (60-80?) folder limit
is still active but all of your HD folders won't count.
I've tested GEMBOOT.PRG with the following software:
MWC system, Cambridge Lisp, lots of TOS games (infocom, hack ..),
Silent service, Hex .... without any problems!
For the curious: A german company (sorry forgot who) sells a similar product
for ~40$. Their program creates space for about 900 folders.

	Andreas Toenne
	CS Dept., IRB
	University of Dortmund, W-Germany

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