[comp.sys.atari.st] Report on GEMBOOT.PRG from Konrad Hahn

usenet@ucbvax.UUCP (03/30/87)

I decided to be brave and install GEMBOOT.PRG at home on my harddisk without
trying on someone's else first :-). Results:
           - the folder limit seems to be at least the Nr. of folders
             on the harddisk + 40, what one would expect from the description
             of GEMBOOT.PRG.
           - programs that didn't work because of the 40 folder bug work now
             (HDSCAN12 etc.)

I installed GEMBOOT on a second harddisk this morning and got the same results.
It seems as if the 40 folder limit has been fixed, at least with respect to the
maximum number of folders you can have on the harddisk.
   You still will not be able to create more than 40 folders at once, but that
is probably not so hard to get around. I'll send the files to the ATARINET
server straightaway so that it gets distributed as far and as quick as
possible!

                               Simon

K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET.UUCP (04/01/87)

I may have been slightly misleading in my report on GEMBOOT.PRG,
according to Konrad Hahn's documentation the maximum number of
folders is 300 (I downloaded it at 2:00 am, sorry!), which for
obvious reason I haven't verified. I have 62 folders on the harddisk
and for test purposes I created 120 folders on the ram-disk without
problems (and copied something in to them!).

                                 Simon Poole
                                 K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET