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Conference 7.286::atarist

Title:	Atari ST, TT, & Falcon
Notice:	Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting!
Moderator:	FUNYET::ANDERSON

Created:	Mon Apr 04 1988
Last Modified:	Tue May 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1433
Total number of notes:	10312

1325.0. "MiNT is on ST USER November'92" by KERNEL::BLAND (Norman Bland 833 3797 CSC, Basingstoke) Mon Oct 19 1992 11:00

    For those of you who have already or are about to purchase ST USER
    magazine for November'92:-
    
    The files on the Cover Disk (all are self de-archiving - standard these
    days for ST USER). One file supplied contains MiNT written by Eric
    Smith which stands for "Multi-tasking is Not TOS"; the version is 0.95.
    There are a number of "C" source files, a simple SHELL and an
    Accessory. BTW, Mint is what ATARI have used as the basis of their
    Multi-tasking O/S that runs on FALCON.
    
    So far so good. The archived file is (this is from memory) about
    335,000 bytes in size. So you copy it to a blank/formatted disk (I use
    82/10 format) and start to de-archive. Eventually you get a write error
    because your disk is full. I tried this with a 1MB RamDisk - still too
    small. I then tried a 2MB RamDisk - success at last. It was then a
    simple matter of copying all de-archived files to my blank disk.
    
    Those of you with less than 2 MB of memory and no RamDisk are going to
    have fun. Well done ST USER.
    
    Norman

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1325.1		UPROAR::EVANSG	Gwyn Evans @ IME - Open DECtrade -> DTN 769-8108	`Mon Oct 19 1992 11:25`	7
	While they have messed up, most file-extracters will let you get the files out one at a time so all may not be lost if you don't have the spare RAM. I havn't bought the mag so I don't know if that's possible in this case or if they're just suggesting that you need 2Mb to run it usefully!
1325.2	Cannot de-arch one at a time	KERNEL::BLAND	Norman Bland 833 3797 CSC, Basingstoke	`Mon Oct 19 1992 13:53`	6
	It is a self de-archiving format that they use; I am not aware of anyway in which to extract one file at a time. Yep , I can do this with other ARC's. The file is simply too large to de-archive unless you have a hard disk (or a poor man's hard disk - RamDisk). Norman
1325.3		UPROAR::EVANSG	Gwyn Evans @ IME - Open DECtrade -> DTN 769-8108	`Mon Oct 19 1992 14:14`	8
1325.4	This may/may_not be of any help...	DETOO::HEARN	Time will tell...	`Mon Oct 19 1992 14:37`	11
	For What it's worth... Mint095 (and libs, utils, & includes) can be found in ZOO form on: dweezl::dua0:[atari.mint] All files are W:re
1325.5	EARLY DAYS but it could be USEFUL	KERNEL::BLAND	Norman Bland 833 3797 CSC, Basingstoke	`Tue Oct 20 1992 10:37`	12
	re .4 Thanks for the pointer - it may be useful to other readers. re .3 You may be correct in that you can pull single files from the archive. As for MiNT - I have manged to crash the system at least twice but the README files do say that it is "BUGGY". I have not found much use for it yet (early days), it is a case of playing around and finding out what can be usefully run on it. Norman