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| 167.1 | I just got it. No problems, so far. | PANGLS::BAILEY | | Wed Jul 20 1988 17:27 | 11 |
| I asked this same question. Since then, however, I got it (from
Compu$erve, ugh! This better be good).
It works REALLY WELL! It doesn't seem to work as well as TurboDOS,
however, at least it works. I haven't ever gotten TurboDOS to work
correctly.
Anyhow, I will upload it. Look for it tomorrow on:
MAY14""::PUBROOT:[ATARI]FATSPEED.ARC
Steph
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| 167.2 | Eh? | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeff Lomicka | Thu Jul 21 1988 11:46 | 8 |
| "works", "does't work as well as TurboDOS", "I haven't ever gotten
TurboDOS to work"
I can't resolve these seemingly contradictory statements. Turbodos is
this totally quiet program that just sits in my system using up memory.
How do you evaluate "better", and what symptoms does it exhibit when it
doesn't work?
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| 167.3 | The smoker I drink, the player I get. | PANGLS::BAILEY | | Thu Jul 21 1988 18:19 | 13 |
| It was supposed to be a bit of jabberwocky.
This is the situation: When I use TurboDOS, I can't seem to get any
programs to execute, (random TOS error #foo messages) but copying
things around works fine. Fatspeed measurably improves the feel of
copying a bunch of files from one place on the HD to another, but
TurboDOS speeds this operation up even more.
Maybe my copy of TurboDOS is bad. Do you use it with, or without
FOLDRXX.PRG? I have tried it both ways with no success (Superboot is a
great thing). It is supposed to fix the 40 folder bug, though, right?
Steph
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| 167.4 | | STAR::HEERMANCE | In Stereo Where Available | Fri Jul 22 1988 09:17 | 3 |
| Is the 40 folder bug 40 folders per drive, or per partition?
Martin H.
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| 167.5 | 40 folder folk-lore | PANGLS::BAILEY | | Fri Jul 22 1988 09:54 | 20 |
| It's 40 folders total (!), seen between reboots. Very dangerous.
Note that folders seen on floppies count, but the folders are flushed
when you change the disk.
The new GEMDOS will make this limit 40 active folders (folders in
which or through which a currently open file is found), which seems
pretty safe to me.
Actually, the number fourty is (I believe) based upon a resonable
number of Mallocs by other processes. If you write a program which
Mallocs a ``resonably large'' number of chunks in memory, the fourty
will become even smaller, or so someone claimed on the USENET.
There is a small program somewhere around which will print out the
number of folders that you are currently ``using''.
Steph
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| 167.6 | | STAR::HEERMANCE | In Stereo Where Available | Fri Jul 22 1988 10:19 | 10 |
| Re: .5
Does a warm start cause a the number of active folders to be flushed?
What happens when the 40 folder limit is reached? Or should I even
bother to ask? ;^)
Looks like I'll have to get my hands on the folderXX.PRG program.
Martin
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| 167.7 | | BENTLY::MESSENGER | An Index of Metals | Fri Jul 22 1988 13:14 | 8 |
| Re: .-1
> What happens when the 40 folder limit is reached? Or should I even
> bother to ask? ;^)
Premature file system death :-), or so it's reported. It's never
happened to me, I don't run FOLDRxxx, and I have 60 Mb online.
- HBM
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| 167.8 | More ``info''. | PANGLS::BAILEY | | Sun Jul 24 1988 16:42 | 10 |
| Yes, the folders get flushed on a warm start.
What happens is if the folder limit is reach has been (vaguely)
described as corruption of file pointers. If you write, it writes
the data to more or less random blocks on the disk. There is no
error message, and the corruption is claimed to be more or less
fatal. But the system does keep running (if bombs is what you mean
by system death...)
Steph
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| 167.9 | Must fold, spindle, and mutilate to use | MILRAT::WALLACE | | Mon Jul 25 1988 22:13 | 9 |
| For a short time only the file FOLDRXXX.ARC can be copied from
MILRAT::DISK$USER3:[WALLACE.PUBLIC.ST]FOLDRXXX.ARC
Unpack the archive, use rename to change the XXX in the file name
to a number indicating the number of "additional" folders to allow
for. IE: Rename FOLDRXXX.PRG to FOLDR100.PRG to allow up to about
140 folders total on all HD partitions and floppies.
Ray
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