Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watmsg!achowe
From: achowe@watmsg.waterloo.edu (CrackerJack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Auto Ram Disk
Message-ID: <17833@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 88 14:33:42 GMT
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>Does anyone out there know of a program that allows you to boot
>up your system with a ram disk installed complete with files in it?
>
>I am currently using Rdy-disk Ram from MWC.  I would like to be able
>to turn on the power to my system and when my prompt appears I already 
>have my ram disk installed with the compiler, editor, etc.
>
>Is there such a program.  It would be a real handy thing to have!

There was a RAM Disk program that had this feature in COMPUTE!'s
Atari ST June '87, Issue 5 Vol2 #3. BUT it DON'T work with Megas.

However Megamatic does and has some nice features. In order to do
the copying into the RAM disk, use BDT csh.tos or startgem the gemcsh
using a login.sh that creates directories, copies, executes a few
programs and logs out. I do this on my WordPerfect disk. Set up
a 1M RAM disk and use csh to copy to WP files to the D:. I then execute
WP with startgem. 

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Anthony C. Howe                         achowe@watmsg.waterloo.edu

"The definition of flying: throwing yourself at the ground and missing."
		- Douglas Adam's  "Life, the Universe and Everything"