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Documentation for VERIFY and AUTOVRFY
Public Domain Programs from Articulate Software
When you turn the Atari ST on, it is set to verify every disk
write by following it with a disk read. Although this is a
good precaution, it is usually unnecessary, because disk
errors are extremely infrequent, and verifying greatly
increases the amount of time taken for disk writes. If you
have been using your computer for some months with no disk
errors, these programs will let you turn off the write-verify
feature. (In one benchmark test, the time taken to write
200K to the disk was decreased from 62 seconds to 36 seconds
by turning verify off -- a 42% decrease in time taken.)
If you run VERIFY, you are what the current write-verify
state is (on or off), and you are asked to select whether you
want to turn it on or off. The default, selected by pressing
RETURN, is off.
AUTOVRFY is another version of this program, but it does not
tell you the current state, and it assumes that you want to
turn write-verify off. It is useful if you want to always
have write-verify turned off when you start up your computer:
you can create a directory called AUTO on the disk that you
boot with, and then copy the file AUTOVRFY.PRG to the AUTO
directory. Now, every time you boot up your computer using
that disk, write-verify will be automatically turned off.
If you find these programs useful or would like the source
code (which is NOT public domain), please send $10 to:
Articulate Software
83 Corte Mesa Dr.
San Rafael, CA 94901.