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- WFV (WaitForValidation) v1.0 Copyright (C) 1993
- by Bob McDowell (1:280/13)
- All Rights Reserved.
-
- Permission is hereby granted to freely redistribute
-
- Docs (what there are of them)
- by Roger Walker (1:280/222)
-
- Ever had your system crash and then hang upon the subsequent reboot
- because a drive (or two) didn't have time to Validate?
-
- WFV to the rescue!
-
- WFV is a small (8992 bytes) utility that sits in your 'C' directory.
- Place it in your s:startup-sequence and it waits for all VOLUMEs to be
- validated before exiting (and allowing your startup-sequence to
- continue).
-
- WFV ONLY polls VOLUMES so things like weird devices/handlers, etc.
- won't fool it. WFV will start at one end of the list, and poll that
- drive once per second until it returns Validated. It then moves onto
- the next Volume in the list, etc., etc., until there are no more to be
- found. It then releases the CLI/Shell and allows your script file
- (s:Startup-sequence) to continue on its merry way.
-
- USAGE: WFV (prints each volume to the CLI/Shell launched from)
-
- or: WFV >NIL: (if you don't want it to open a CLI/Shell)
-
- It is strongly recommended that you place it early in your startup-sequence,
- but AFTER SetPatch. On a 'standard' (no error) reboot here on my system,
- it adds about 1 second of additional time to load, poll all drives, and
- exit (10 Volumes, 1.2G).
-
- Workbench v2.0 (or above) is recommended, but the author doesn't think
- there should be any problems under v1.3. Be FOREWARNED however, that it
- has NOT BEEN TESTED under Workbench v1.3.
-
-
- STANDARD DISCLAIMER:
-
- This program works on both Bob's system and my own, and works flawlessly.
-
- It is NOT GUARANTEED TO DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN OCCUPY SPACE ON *YOUR* HARD
- DRIVE.
-
- Written w/SAS [v6.2]
-
- 10-Feb-93
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