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- HandyWipe -- by John Eidsvoog
- Freeware
- Sunday, September 22, 1991
-
- Included: HNDYWIPE.PRG - the program
- HNDYWIPE.TXT - this file
-
- HandyWipe allows you to do automatic or manual cold resets of your Atari
- ST. Its main purpose is to delay the booting of your computer until
- your hard drive has had a chance to spin up. This lets you turn on one
- switch for your entire computer system and automatically boot up without
- further user action.
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- If you simply copy HNDYWIPE.PRG into the AUTO folder of the floppy disk
- in drive A, it will continue doing cold resets until your hard disk auto
- boot driver takes over.
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- HWIPExxx.PRG
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- You can force a delay by copying HNDYWIPE.PRG into the AUTO folder of
- the floppy disk in drive A and renaming it to HWIPExxx.prg, where "xxx"
- is the number of seconds to wait before rebooting. For example, naming
- it HWIPE12.PRG will cause HandyWipe to wait 12 seconds (a message on the
- screen will inform you of the delay value) and then execute a cold boot.
- If this is timed correctly (and your hard disk does not mysteriously
- disallow this type of activity <grin>), your computer will reboot from
- your hard drive, bypassing the floppy disk.
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- Desktop Operation
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- When you run HandyWipe from the desktop, an alert box will appear
- allowing you to do a cold boot or "Quit" without rebooting. An extra
- alert box will verify that you truly want to wipe all memory before
- rebooting.
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- HandyWipe is freeware and may be distributed freely as long as it
- remains in its unaltered state.
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