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From: yuan@uhccux.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Hard Disks and 40 Folder Limit
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Date: Sat, 16-May-87 04:48:29 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 16 04:48:29 1987
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In article <870513125001.000007E9.ALPX.MA@UMass> Flash@UMASS.BITNET (Rick Flashman) writes:
>In responce to the Amiga owner who keeps asking what happens if we boot
>off a disk without a 40 folder fix.

     Not really, I own an Apple and IBM PeeCee, but not Amiga (yet :-)
>
>Ok, so you ask, what do I do if I want to boot off floppy for one of those
>copy-protected programs that auto-boot? Simple, I just hold down the
>CONTROL-SHIFT-ALTERNATE trio during booting, and the harddisk booter
>will recognize what I want, and not install the hard disk, and let the
>system boot off the floppy. Viola. Since the hard disk is NOT installed,
>there is no way any floppy program can get to the hard disk, and there
>is no 40 folder limit problem to bother of.

     I'm not trying to nitpick on the 40_folder bug, but just merely trying
to see if there's a -possibility- that a HD gets trashed due to booting off
a floppy (Murphy's Law?).  I get the impression that what you're saying is
that it is -not- possible to trash the HD even when booting off a floppy?  Or
that you need to remember to hold the special key sequences down?  If there's
a possibility of doing something (no matter how remote the possibility is), 
Somebody will do it...
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