Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!nbires!isis!onecom!wldrdg!tony
From: tony@wldrdg.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: HDSCAN (and GEMBOOT.PRG)
Message-ID: <128@wldrdg.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 12:09:42 EST
Article-I.D.: wldrdg.128
Posted: Mon Apr  6 12:09:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 07:26:49 EST
References: <8704040134.AA06662@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <774@viper.UUCP>
Distribution: world
Organization: Wildridge Consulting,  Boulder, CO
Lines: 35

> In article <8704040134.AA06662@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET writes:
>  >BTW has anybody besides myself actually tried GEMBOOT.PRG? It works
>  >VERY well, but I'm slightly supprised that there seems to be a great
>  >lack of enthusiasm about this program. Konrad THANKS A LOT!
>  >                            Simon
>   Simon,
>     I for one have not used the GEMBOOT program for three major reasons...:

[various sensible reasons given for not using gemboot...]

> John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)
> Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems
> UUCP: ...{amdahl,ihnp4,rutgers}!{meccts,dayton}!viper!john

After finally giving up on waiting for Atari's fix I bit the bullet this
weekend and hacked around on my hard disk.  I made a full backup and
installed the hard disk auto-booting code that was posted to the net a
while ago. That seemed to work okay. Then last night I started using
gemboot and re-organized my disk in a more reasonable fashion making lots
of subdirectories. I'm up to 61 folders on my hard disk between two
partitions and so far haven't had any trouble.  I'm going to make backups
very often for a while until I build more confidence in gemboot, and I'll
certainly report any trouble to the net.

I *REALLY* wanted to wait and use Atari's program to relieve the 40 folder
limit, but after months of empty promises I had to do something. So the
question remains... when is Atari going to release their fix. It's been
in testing for a long time now. I can understand their caution with
something like this but the program was supposed to be available some
time ago.

Tony Andrews
Wildridge Consulting, Inc.
Boulder, CO
...!ihnp4!onecom!wldrdg!tony