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- DSTAT-X
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- DSTAT-X is a program that can be used to do a quick "Show
- Info" of a drive connected to the Atari ST/e/TT computer. It
- gives information on:
-
- o the volume name of the disk.
- o whether or not the disk has an executable boot
- sector or not.
- o the OEM identifier (i.e. the name of the company
- who makes the software you formatted a hard disk
- with.
- o the number of sides on the disk.
- o the number of bytes per sector on the disk.
- o the number of sectors per track on the disk.
- (NOTE: Hard disks may return a 0 here)
- o the number of sectors per cluster (usually 2).
- o the total number of clusters on the disk.
- o the total size of the disk in bytes.
- o the amount of free space on the disk in bytes
- (this is what everyone will *really* want to
- know...<grin>)
- o the amount of free space on the disk as a
- percentage of the total space on the disk.
-
-
- DSTAT-X runs as a .PRG, .ACC, or as a .WNX. I'm sure you
- are familiar with what .PRG and .ACC are, but the .WNX is a bit
- different.
-
- A while ago, I started writing an extensible control panel
- for the Atari ST, and found out Atari was doing the same, so to
- try to do them one better, I've made one that has a different
- guiding concept behind it.
-
- Like the Mac CDEV Control Panel and Atari's XCONTROL, my
- "control panel", my program, Wind-XES, can also load in
- applications (not necessarily small ones, either), and run them
- as if they were part of itself. Wind-XES itself runs as either a
- program (.PRG) or a desk accessory (.ACC). The big difference is
- that in the Atari and Mac CPs, you can only work with a single
- application from within them at a time (at least from inside
- their main window), whereas under Wind-XES, all of the .WNXes can
- work concurrently, under GEM, and you have instant access to all
- of them within the main Wind-XES window.
-
- The concept is a bit difficult to describe, but what it
- amounts to is the ability to run up to 6 copies of Wind-XES,
- with up to 32 WNXes each, for a grand total of 192 WNXes resident
- at one time. I wouldn't suggest doing this, though, unless you
- have the CPU speed to bear with 192 processes at once... Each
- individual .WNX, remember, has its own little share of the CPU
- time it has to have, so what it effectively does is multitask all
- of the processes at once. (NOTE: No, this is not going to
- multitask normal programs, like Calamus, only programs written to
- take advantage of this method. But the effect to the user is
- pretty much the same as what you would expect when using a
- typical MT enviroment with a GUI...)
-
- Coming soon will be another demo of Wind-XES which will be a
- bit more eye-popping than the previous versions anyone may have
- seen floating around on CIS or GEnie last year.
-
- You can contact me at:
-
- Charles H. Medley
- ENiGMA Software
- 659 Kennedy Street, N.E.
- Washington, D.C. 20011
-
- I can be contacted on Internet as:
-
- cmedley@wam.umd.edu
-
-
- P.S. to the guys at Double Click: I can still write a better
- disk statistician program than Mike Vederman. Always have,
- always will. Ahem. And even if DC Disk Stat 1.0 is 5k on a
- disk, it still takes 10k of RAM to run, *just like DSTAT-X*... so
- there, guys! nyaaaaaah... <grin>
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