🚀 go-pugleaf

I have been using Konrad Hahn's GEMBOOT program (on a US version
ST) for a few days now and its wonderful!  The memory it ties up
is a small price to pay for the ability to have a large number of
directories on my hard disk.  Also, it seems to have eliminated
many "mysterious" system crashes that were apparently caused by
GEMDOS creating duplicate entries in memory for the same folders.
I was amazed by the results of Hahn's GEMDIR program, which showed
up to 8 copies of some of the folders in C:\ immediately after my
rather involved bootup sequence.  I had placed a program in my A:\AUTO
folder that read a file of command lines and invoked each of the
programs in turn.  Apparently each command that was invoked caused
another copy of the folders in C:\ to be placed in memory, so GEMDOS
had almost run out of memory even before I got off the ground.

I did find the program a bit tricky to install, for I wanted the
command shell and the .BAT startup files to reside on the hard disk
rather than on the boot floppy.  It was necessary to patch the code
to do this, and that job was not particularly easy.  Also, I might
like to have it invoke my own shell rather than COMMAND.TOS without
querying me first but have not figured out how to make that happen,
for if there are no .BAT files, then the startup shell is not invoked
at all.  But these are minor quibbles that should not detract from
the fact that Konrad has done a really nice job and provided us with
an interim solution to a vexing problem.

By the way, I would really like a copy of the source code for the
programs in GEMSOFT, both to be able to customize them to my preferences
and to learn more about what is going on in GEMDOS.  Perhaps Konrad
would be willing to post sources to the net, or at least send me a
copy directly.

--Michael Fischer
  Arpanet: fischer@yale.arpa
  Bitnet:  fischer@yalecs

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