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- Documentation for VERIFY and AUTOVRFY
- Public Domain Programs from Articulate Software
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- When you turn the Atari ST on, it is set to verify every disk
- write by following it with a disk read. Although this is a
- good precaution, it is usually unnecessary, because disk
- errors are extremely infrequent, and verifying greatly
- increases the amount of time taken for disk writes. If you
- have been using your computer for some months with no disk
- errors, these programs will let you turn off the write-verify
- feature. (In one benchmark test, the time taken to write
- 200K to the disk was decreased from 62 seconds to 36 seconds
- by turning verify off -- a 42% decrease in time taken.)
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- If you run VERIFY, you are what the current write-verify
- state is (on or off), and you are asked to select whether you
- want to turn it on or off. The default, selected by pressing
- RETURN, is off.
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- AUTOVRFY is another version of this program, but it does not
- tell you the current state, and it assumes that you want to
- turn write-verify off. It is useful if you want to always
- have write-verify turned off when you start up your computer:
- you can create a directory called AUTO on the disk that you
- boot with, and then copy the file AUTOVRFY.PRG to the AUTO
- directory. Now, every time you boot up your computer using
- that disk, write-verify will be automatically turned off.
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- If you find these programs useful or would like the source
- code (which is NOT public domain), please send $10 to:
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- Articulate Software
- 83 Corte Mesa Dr.
- San Rafael, CA 94901.
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