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DSTAT-X
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DSTAT-X is a program that can be used to do a quick "Show
Info" of a drive connected to the Atari ST/e/TT computer. It
gives information on:
o the volume name of the disk.
o whether or not the disk has an executable boot
sector or not.
o the OEM identifier (i.e. the name of the company
who makes the software you formatted a hard disk
with.
o the number of sides on the disk.
o the number of bytes per sector on the disk.
o the number of sectors per track on the disk.
(NOTE: Hard disks may return a 0 here)
o the number of sectors per cluster (usually 2).
o the total number of clusters on the disk.
o the total size of the disk in bytes.
o the amount of free space on the disk in bytes
(this is what everyone will *really* want to
know...<grin>)
o the amount of free space on the disk as a
percentage of the total space on the disk.
DSTAT-X runs as a .PRG, .ACC, or as a .WNX. I'm sure you
are familiar with what .PRG and .ACC are, but the .WNX is a bit
different.
A while ago, I started writing an extensible control panel
for the Atari ST, and found out Atari was doing the same, so to
try to do them one better, I've made one that has a different
guiding concept behind it.
Like the Mac CDEV Control Panel and Atari's XCONTROL, my
"control panel", my program, Wind-XES, can also load in
applications (not necessarily small ones, either), and run them
as if they were part of itself. Wind-XES itself runs as either a
program (.PRG) or a desk accessory (.ACC). The big difference is
that in the Atari and Mac CPs, you can only work with a single
application from within them at a time (at least from inside
their main window), whereas under Wind-XES, all of the .WNXes can
work concurrently, under GEM, and you have instant access to all
of them within the main Wind-XES window.
The concept is a bit difficult to describe, but what it
amounts to is the ability to run up to 6 copies of Wind-XES,
with up to 32 WNXes each, for a grand total of 192 WNXes resident
at one time. I wouldn't suggest doing this, though, unless you
have the CPU speed to bear with 192 processes at once... Each
individual .WNX, remember, has its own little share of the CPU
time it has to have, so what it effectively does is multitask all
of the processes at once. (NOTE: No, this is not going to
multitask normal programs, like Calamus, only programs written to
take advantage of this method. But the effect to the user is
pretty much the same as what you would expect when using a
typical MT enviroment with a GUI...)
Coming soon will be another demo of Wind-XES which will be a
bit more eye-popping than the previous versions anyone may have
seen floating around on CIS or GEnie last year.
You can contact me at:
Charles H. Medley
ENiGMA Software
659 Kennedy Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20011
I can be contacted on Internet as:
cmedley@wam.umd.edu
P.S. to the guys at Double Click: I can still write a better
disk statistician program than Mike Vederman. Always have,
always will. Ahem. And even if DC Disk Stat 1.0 is 5k on a
disk, it still takes 10k of RAM to run, *just like DSTAT-X*... so
there, guys! nyaaaaaah... <grin>