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I have a RISC Developments IDE Hard disc, and have been trying to get
the filer to use showfree instead of the old-fashioned free command
(RISC Developments havn't updated their software to take advantage of
RO3 yet). If I type:

Showfree -FS idefs 4

I get an error message saying that the filing system cannot be found. I
assume this is because the filing system does not take advantage of
some RO3 feature. Anyway, I looked through the Free module (which
provides Showfree), and found that there were three ADFS SWI's. I
changed these to the equivalent IDEFS SWI's, and re-ran the module. If
I now type:

showfree -FS adfs 4

I get a showfree window telling me how much room I have on my IDE
harddisc. However, if I then, say, delete a file the showfree window is
not updated, and still shows the previous status of my disc. If I
re-type the command, then the showfree window is updated. The only way
I can see of getting round this, is to have a task continually
executing 'showfree'. However this is far from satisfactory (not least
because I cann't close the window, and it keeps jumping to the top).

What I want to know is if there is anyone out there who knows anything
about showfree and how it works, or if anyone has solved the same
problem before.

I would appreciate any replies.
Thanks,

Paul.


 ************  Paul Gilkerson  *****  u91pag@ecs.ox.ac.uk   ************