Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!mtuxo!mtgzy!mtgzz!drutx!druhi!lbl From: lbl@druhi.ATT.COM (Barry Locklear) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Hard Disk Crash Message-ID: <3514@druhi.ATT.COM> Date: 2 Sep 88 17:20:04 GMT References: <5037@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <441@forty2.UUCP> <8364@cup.portal. <8627@cup.portal.com> Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO Lines: 14 In article <8627@cup.portal.com>, Thomas_E_Zerucha@cup.portal.com writes: > Simon Poole writes: > >while your program sounds quite nice, it would fail miserably on two of the > >four partitions on my hard drive (guess why?) > > If they are some kind of partitions for a Mac emulator or Idris or OS/9, m > program wouldn't recognize them at all. I think what Simon meant was that two of his partitions are either full or contain files larger than the free space on the partition. If your program works like I think it does, then this would cause it to fail. Otherwise, it sounds great. Barry Locklear