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From: bob@wiley.UUCP (Bob Amstadt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MWC problems update
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Date: Mon, 18-May-87 12:40:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 18 12:40:44 1987
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In article <986@viper.UUCP> john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley) writes:
>     Well Bob, I'm not "Atari", but just from looking at your tests, I'd
>   guess the problem(s) is/are that a) your ramdisk is too small for both
>   the sources and the temporary files and b) that the compiler you're
>   using doesn't test for read/write errors on the temporary files so it
>   gets fried without telling you about it when it trys to interpret half 
>   written files.

>     You didn't say how large a program you were compiling or how big your
>   ramdisk was.  Many people are suprised to discover just how much room is
>   necessary for temporary files even on small programs....


Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately not correct. This weekend I
was able to try my hard disk and compiler with a different 1040ST.
Guess what! The compiler ran flawlessly. Unfortunately, this does
not tell me why the compiler dies on my system when everything else
SEEMS to run fine.

So this is a plea for diagnostic software. Has anyone seen software written
for the specific purpose exercising the computer? I'd write my own, but
I'm a little upset with my machine.

		---Bob Amstadt

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