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- From: u91pag@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Paul Gilkerson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Getting 3rd Party Filing Systems To Use Showfree
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.212802.8912@black.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:28:02 GMT
- Sender: microsoc@black.ox.ac.uk (Paul Gilkerson)
- Organization: Oxford University, UK
- Lines: 36
- Originator: microsoc@black
-
-
- I have a RISC Developments IDE Hard disc, and have been trying to get
- the filer to use showfree instead of the old-fashioned free command
- (RISC Developments havn't updated their software to take advantage of
- RO3 yet). If I type:
-
- Showfree -FS idefs 4
-
- I get an error message saying that the filing system cannot be found. I
- assume this is because the filing system does not take advantage of
- some RO3 feature. Anyway, I looked through the Free module (which
- provides Showfree), and found that there were three ADFS SWI's. I
- changed these to the equivalent IDEFS SWI's, and re-ran the module. If
- I now type:
-
- showfree -FS adfs 4
-
- I get a showfree window telling me how much room I have on my IDE
- harddisc. However, if I then, say, delete a file the showfree window is
- not updated, and still shows the previous status of my disc. If I
- re-type the command, then the showfree window is updated. The only way
- I can see of getting round this, is to have a task continually
- executing 'showfree'. However this is far from satisfactory (not least
- because I cann't close the window, and it keeps jumping to the top).
-
- What I want to know is if there is anyone out there who knows anything
- about showfree and how it works, or if anyone has solved the same
- problem before.
-
- I would appreciate any replies.
- Thanks,
-
- Paul.
-
-
- ************ Paul Gilkerson ***** u91pag@ecs.ox.ac.uk ************
-