Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ubvax!ardent!rap
From: rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VDK:
Summary: have not tried to get thru, but this is what local Amiga office says
Message-ID: <1931@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 89 20:28:36 GMT
References: <8901221646.AA01207@jade.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <8901221646.AA01207@jade.berkeley.edu>, MOLNARRM@UREGINA1.BITNET writes:
> Are you absolutely sure about this?  I found a 'beta test' of VDK on a BBS,
> complete with docs.  It even includes a sample mountlist entry.
> Neil Katin's copyright is in the VDK-handler as well.
> Here is an excerpt from the doc file :
> 
> :This file: README.  Last Changed: 8 Jan 1987
> :
> :This is an beta test of the vdk "virtual disk" handler.  There are no
> :known bugs, but the system has not been extensively used either.  Please

As far as I remember, when Neil gave out his beta test versions, they
were given to folks he trusted not to distribute it further... this is
the whole idea behind beta testing, eh?

But I have here a path that is supposed to forward mail directly to
Neil (but no phone number to offer).  Try these paths and let us
know what happens:

Note that you need not only VDK: but also the patch for it, which
by now Neil may already have incorporated (patch is available on
People Link... best place I know to get PD stuff other than Fish).
Patch makes VDK: not respond "sorry, I am full" to info requests
about 'is there nuff space for this'.  The path that I have is:


	hplabs!pyramid!amiga!neil
		or
	uunet!cbmvax!amiga!neil

	whichever is easiest for you to trace.  Neil Katin's mail gets
	forwarded from amiga to SUN somewhere.  Good luck; VDK: at last
	time I knew, was only about $10.00.  Faster than VD0: and acts
	like RAM: rather than RAD: (not fixed size).

Rob Peck