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INFO-ATARI16 Digest         Tue, 12 Dec 89       Volume 89 : Issue 797
 
Today's Topics:
                         booting from floppy
                 Directory node descriptors and AHDI
                         Drachen and Mah-Jong
                FLAMES and SUPPORT IN THE MINUS REALM
                                no Mas
                              shel_put()
                    ST Dealer favors MAC Money...
                              STOS Basic
    THANKS Dave Small for doing legal calls -- Adobe Type Manager
                        vdist.prg version 3.3
                         Xenon 2 and TOS 1.4
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Date: 12 Dec 89 18:14:26 GMT
From: shlump.nac.dec.com!engage.enet.dec.com!oldtmr!wallace@decwrl.dec.com  (Ray
 Wallace)
Subject: booting from floppy
Message-ID: <1377@engage.enet.dec.com>
 
In article <101870@ti-csl.csc.ti.com>, parker@vlsic2 (James Parker) writes...
>I am having a problem trying to boot from the floppy disk while
>
>hard-drive.  I have a copy of ICDBOOT.prg in A:\AUTO folder but not in
Remove ICDBOOT.PRG from a:\auto then cold boot the system with
contol/shift/alt. Desktop.inf, DA's and \auto programs will all come from the
floppy. If you want access to the HD then manualy run ICDBOOT.PRG.
 
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Date: Tue, 12 DEC 89 17:02:41 GMT
From: MALCOLM%tower-vax.city-poly.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK
Subject: Directory node descriptors and AHDI
 
Thanks to Allan Pratt for his clear description of the 40-folder bug and
what TOS 1.4 does about it.  No flame intended, but I think this is the first
*real* description of the problem that I've seen.  Which brings me to my
question.  When I disassembled AHDI (version 1.7 I think) I noticed that it
contained identical pool-extension code to FOLDRXXX.  So am I right in thinking
that if AHDI extends the pool by a large enough number of directory node
descriptors I can throw away FOLDRXXX?  I could add code to AHDI to make the
extnension variable (duplicating the functionality of the 'XXX' in 'FOLDRXXX').
 
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Date: 10 Dec 89 18:36:54 GMT
From: nis!pwcs!stag!syntel!dal@UMN-CS.CS.UMN.EDU  (Dale Schumacher)
Subject: Drachen and Mah-Jong
Message-ID: <111089A0009@syntel.mn.org>
 
> Well, Shanghai and Drachen both use the same game space and rules, so they
> are identical simulations of something, but I don't think it is really
> Maj-Jong.  I believe 'real' Maj-Jong has more tiles, but I am not sure.
 

