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From: ralph@lasso.UUCP (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Auto Ram Disk
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Date: 5 Apr 88 15:49:29 GMT
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Since I haven't seen all copies of Info-Atari16 that have come out since #130,
I offer the following solution which might not be as fast as others - but it's
flexible.

I use the ETRNL2 ram disk together with GEMBOOT (version 1.11).  ETRNL2 is
reconfigurable and quasi-eternal.  GEMBOOT provides the possibilty to execute
a batch file as the last step of the \AUTO\ folder sequence.  By default it
looks for *.BAT files in \BOOTBAT\.  Batch files are executed by default by
COMMAND.PRG.  One can select amongst the batch files.

I use this facility to initialize my ramdisk (if necessary, can be aborted) and
execute certain programs by default (such as to put my monitor in 50-line mode).

I find it very useful -- but it might be less useful for those that don't have
a hard disk.

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