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From: ralph@lasso.UUCP (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TurboDOS documentation
Message-ID: <8804200959.AA17305@lasso.laas.fr>
Date: 20 Apr 88 09:59:51 GMT
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I third the demand for documentation on TurboDOS.  I have it, but it's
deactivated in my \AUTO\ folder!  I've had *too* many problems with it.
For me, this could be due to other programs in my \AUTO\ folder:  GDOS,
ETRNL2, ACACHE, GEMBOOT.  I'm sure that some are due to interactions amongst
these programs and TurboDOS.

First problem, TurboDOS causes my machine to hang on initial boot after
executing the entire \AUTO\ folder.  GEM comes up, but the mouse is *dead*!
Rebooting gets GEM to wake up decently.

Second problem, is its use of RAM!  It would occasionally cause DLII to
complain about stack and heap space and abort.  Rebooting, would then let
DLII run.

Third, I've also had a floppy trashed.  One sector was completely unreadable.
Not even DLII could access that sector, but it found no inconsistencies on
the disk.

Fourth, the GEM drive information menu item was not much speeded up in
determining the free space on a drive!  This is contrary to someone's
experience with a Unix-like "df" program.  My SH204 is pretty much crammed
full of stuff, and I'm approaching 200 folders.

Does anybody know where best TurboDOS should be in the famous \AUTO\-exec
sequence?

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P.S.  Again, reply to me directly since I've no access to comp.*.atari.st or
much else.