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Received: from desk.jdksoftware.com ([204.239.197.249]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA27964 for <executor@nacm.com>; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 17:13:20 -0700 Received: (from jeffk@localhost) by desk.jdksoftware.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA14469; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 17:15:07 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 17:15:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Koftinoff <jeffk@awinc.com> X-Sender: jeffk@desk.jdksoftware.com To: Pat Gunn <pgunn01@ibm.net> cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: executor-digest V1 #310 In-Reply-To: <199510252136.VAA166747@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951025171140.11672J-100000@desk.jdksoftware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Pat Gunn wrote: <snip> > > My Executor running under PC-DOS and OS/2 works like a charm with reading, > writing, and formatting disks. No problems here. > > >I have been trying to get diskcopy to recreate a floppy from an image > >file. On a real mac, diskcopy ejects the current floppy, prompts the user > >for a new diskette, and waits for a disk-insert event. Under executor, > >this doesn't happen, so diskcopy is not useable. Does anyone of > >you know a workaround for that? And out of curiosity, probably more > >programs rely on disk-insert events, how is ardi going to handle that? > > I recall that PC-Tools, or was it Norton Utilities, no matter, one of them used to have a > way to have the disk drive sit there scaning for new disks, and when a disk was inserted, > it would continue the program ... I suppose maybe something similar could be done under > Executor, except there's the problem of notebook computers having their power gobbled by a > continually scanning Disk Drive ... I remember years ago the Spectre 128 Mac emulator for the Atari ST (it used 128k Mac-ROMS). What they did is had a big flashing 'A' or 'B' in the corner of the screen when the software wanted to eject a disk. Then you eject the disk manually. When you inserted a disk, you had to press 'F1' for drive A, or 'F2' for drive B, to tell the 'mac' that a new disk was inserted. Macs back then didn't have function keys... jeff ------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Jeff Koftinoff --- jeffk@awinc.com --------- --- Internet Monitoring and Filtering Software --- --- Multimedia and Embedded Systems Programming --- --- http://www.xmission.com/~seer/jdksoftware/ --- -------------------------------------------------------