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Subject: Re:Re: ibm pc disk (LOTS OF DETAIL by Allan Pratt)
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Date: 5 Sep 88 10:34:00 GMT
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Attn.: Allan Pratt

In one of your mails in the INFO-ATARI16 Digest Volume 88 Issue 376
(ibm pc disk (LOTS OF DETAIL)) you told us some facts about new disk
formatting and media change.

Sorry about the following, but as one of the BETA TOS tester here in
Germany I have to tell you some bugs within the new TOS v1.4 beta
release (some days ago i was confined by my professional discretion) :

1) the IBM PC don't like a disk formatted with the new TOS release ...
   (using standard DESKTOP formatting capability)

2) it seems that pressing ESC didn't flush all buffers (FAT cache ??) ...
   try the following with two ST's :
   a) insert a disk into the first ST (standard DESKTOP formatted)
   b) open a window under DESKTOP
   c) execute any program, finish the prgm, return to the DESKTOP
   d) remove this disk and insert it into the second ST
   e) overwrite the program you have executed on the first ST
      (eg. copy a new (size different) version of the program onto
       this disk)
   f) insert this disk into the first ST, hit ESC and execute the
      program again
   g) --> you will get a TOS error !!

I hope, that some other (minor) odds within the new TOS release covered
by BETA testers are already known to you.

Let me say here thanks for your work on the new TOS release. You have
really corrected the most crucial bugs (40 folder, malloc, IO redirection,
disk performance). This kind of upgrading is the way to become a Operating
System wich we (the ungrateful (?!) ATARI users) can live with.

Please, keep going on this way in the future ...


Best regards

W.Huebner

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