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- SHIPACC.PRG, by Landon Dyer and Ken Badertscher
- Copyright 1989, Atari Corp.
-
- Anyone who uses the Atari Hard Disk Utilities is familiar with SHIP.PRG,
- the program that tells your hard disks to put their heads someplace safe
- so they don't hurt themselves. Well, anyone who has used SHIP.PRG is also
- familiar with what a pain it is to run, since it must be run from floppy,
- and it ships your hard disks with extreme prejudice, and...
-
- Now there's SHIPACC.PRG. It's called SHIPACC.PRG because it can
- function as both a desk accessory and a program. And since it takes up
- less than a kilobyte of memory, it's a nice accessory to have around.
- Especially since nobody ever runs SHIP on their hard disks before they
- power them down, even though it's a VERY good idea.
-
- When you run SHIPACC.PRG, it presents you with an alert box, asking
- whether you really want to park all hard disks or not. BE CAREFUL,
- because the default selection is YES - PARK THEM ALL. After it has
- done the deed, it presents you with another alert box, informing you
- that you had better turn off all your hard disks. Please follow its
- advice. Trying to access a hard disk after its heads have been parked
- can be EXTREMELY BAD for the hard disk.
-
- If you want SHIPACC available all the time, rename it to SHIPACC.ACC,
- and copy it to the root directory of drive C. Next time you boot,
- you'll see a "Park Hard Disks" selection in the Desk menu. If you
- select it, SHIPACC will work the same as if run as a program. Try it!
-
- As if that wasn't enough, SHIPACC can also be run as a TTP program or
- from a command line shell. To do this, you must give it arguments, or
- else it will assume that you are running it from the desktop, and present
- you with the alert box mentioned above. If you give it any arguments on
- its command line, it will go ahead and ship all hard disks, then inform
- you that it has done so, and firmly suggest that you turn off all hard
- disks. It won't go away until you inform it that you have done so by
- pressing a key.
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