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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

5340.0. "Anyone interested in a small utility?" by AIDEV::LANDINGHAM (For a good prime, call: 391581 * 2^216193 - 1) Mon Jan 13 1992 11:35

I usually download a lot of stuff to hard drives and later transfer to floppy
disk for more permanent storage.  So I do a lot of popping disks in DF1:.

I wanted a program to tell me the volume name and free blocks on a drive when a
disk was inserted.  So I wrote one.  It's pretty unsophisticated, but it works.
You RUN it from a CLI, and everytime a disk is inserted it will type out the
disk's volume name and the free blocks.

If anyone's interested in using this I'll upload it.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
5340.1	Please Upload	ARRODS::GOLDSTEIN	Steve G. DTN: 847-5401	`Tue Jan 14 1992 04:08`	4
	Yes Please Upload the utility Steve G
5340.2	Will upload this evening.	AIDEV::LANDINGHAM	For a good prime, call: 391581 * 2^216193 - 1	`Tue Jan 14 1992 11:29`	1
	Ok, I'll write up a short doc file and upload it this evening.
5340.3	Uploaded to EOT::	AIDEV::LANDINGHAM	For a good prime, call: 391581 * 2^216193 - 1	`Tue Jan 14 1992 19:27`	1
	Uploaded to EOT:: : WATCHDRIVE.LZH
5340.4	V2.0 is a no-go..	XSNAKE::WILSONTL	Lead Trumpet (Read that...LEED!)	`Wed Jan 15 1992 08:34`	4
	I tried it on my 3000 (V2.-04). It causes the screen to go haywire and the only remedy seems to be the 3-fingered poke in the eye. Tony
5340.5	Addendum to .4	XSNAKE::WILSONTL	Lead Trumpet (Read that...LEED!)	`Wed Jan 15 1992 08:37`	10
	It seems to be a worthwhile utility. You are right. Knowing the free blocks on a diskette is useful. Consider that most 3000's, however, are delivered with one diskette internal and that any diskette driver connected to the external port becomes DF2:, not DF1:. So please allow for more than just the two drive names. Thanks, Tony
5340.6	Caution: DON'T FORMAT DISKS	AIDEV::LANDINGHAM	For a good prime, call: 391581 * 2^216193 - 1	`Wed Jan 15 1992 10:38`	8
	re: .-1 I'll add DF2: option in next "release". Caution: After using this for awhile I found a serious problem when formatting new disks. DO NOT TRY TO FORMAT DISKS while this program is running. You're surely visit the wise man on the mountain. Sorry this didn't get into the docs.