[comp.sys.atari.st] Gemboot & GFA Basic

SADOIAN@UOFT02.BITNET (07/14/87)

      Has anyone else noticed that GEMBOOT screws up GFA BASIC's edit
screen?  I first noticed it when running GEMBOOT 1.09, and it still
happens now that I am using 1.10.  It seems to be related to how many
"FOLDERS" are specified in the GEMBOOT.INF file.  I have been using 157,
which still screws up the GFA edit screen, but not so much as to make it
unusable.

      Chuck Sadoian

rwa@auvax.UUCP (Ross Alexander) (07/15/87)

In article <8707150100.AA13525@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, SADOIAN@UOFT02.BITNET writes:
>       Has anyone else noticed that GEMBOOT screws up GFA BASIC's edit
> screen?  [...]

re gemboot:  the old version ( 1.06 ) gets in the way of MWC 2.0, but the
interaction is all in the shell_p_ variable and this is easy to get
around.  The new version ( gemb1v10.arc ) is however also incompatible
and bootfix.prg can't help.  Any ideas out there?

Further to this theme:  hdb2.3 absolutely fouls things up for the MWC
ramdisk utility.  I have tried every combination and sequence of things
I can imagine, and nothing seems to work.  Any gurus out there who
can help?  Because I really do like the MWC idea of a 'frozen' ramdisk
ready to install (already containing your choice of files).  And I also
like the idea of booting from something besides my pokey ol' floppy.
But floppy boots it shall be, since C compiles without the ramdisk
are only slightly preferable to visits to one's dentist :-)

To change the topic slightly:  many kudos to the authors of CAP.  Nice
stuff, gentlemen!

...!ihnp4!alberta!auvax!rwa	Ross Alexander @ Athabasca University