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  2. From: Graham Chiu <gchiu@compkarori.co.nz>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: JAZ spindown and lost volumes?
  5. Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 09:04:12 +1300
  6. Organization: CompKarori
  7. Distribution: world
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  15. In article <4k5v6c$1ff@leol.net-link.net>, Mike Williams <mikew@net-
  16. link.net> writes
  17. >In article <TyjY3RAbNPZxEwkC@gchiu.compkarori.co.nz> Graham Chiu 
  18. ><gchiu@compkarori.co.nz> writes:
  19. >
  20. >> So why not write a little program to access the Jaz drive every 20
  21. >> minutes or so ...
  22. >
  23. >Good idea.  Maybe a script that just launches diskchange every few minutes?
  24. >How easy is it to access the timer through a script?
  25. >
  26. I wrote a little program aeons ago in JForth when I used my A1000 with
  27. no clock that regularly "touched" a file in rad: so that if I rebooted,
  28. I wouldn't lose the time.  Called it molest (!), and uploaded it to
  29. GEnie.  One could use that.  I think it touched the file once a minute.
  30.  
  31.  
  32. Graham Chiu
  33. CompKarori, Karori Shopping Mall, Karori, Wellington, New Zealand
  34. Amiga, Jaguar, PlayStation, and PC sales, & Wellington Internet Connections 
  35. ph: +64 4 4760212 fax: +64 4 4769088, internet: gchiu@compkarori.co.nz
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  37.