Swatdisk Released for the GS

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

Well, since GS+ hit the old bit bucket, one of my programs I was
grooming for them has been changed to a shareware release. Swatdisk is
a GS/OS ramdisk driver with a lot more features. Basically, you can
create up to 4 ramdisks of any size at anytime within GS/OS, and then
delete them later when you want. It's really useful for unpacking
those idiotic 800K disk archives, and any time you want a quick disk
area. Swatdisk is a GS/OS driver, and can be controlled by the
included CDA, NDA, or shell (tested with Orca & GNO) utilities.

   If you want to use Swatdisk past the two week evaluation period,
please send me $10, as described in the archive's readme.


Here's a comparison of Swatdisk to the RAM5 driver:

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   SwatterDisk is NOT a controller for RAM5, and vice versa. Someone else
wrote a RAM5 management program; this isn't it. A quick comparison of the
two:

RAM5
- Controlled from the IIGS control panel, graphical or text
- On ROM 01, variable size from minimum to maximum (not so with Sys 6
  drivers); ROM 3: fixed size
- When formatted in ProDOS format, can be booted from
- Keeps contents even after reboot (when not resized during reboot on
  ROM 3), and ProDOS 8
- Accessible from ProDOS 8
- Only one disk can be created
- Tied to Slot 5, disk 1 or 2; conflicts can occur with SuperDisk
  controllers, etc.
- Sizes only as multiples of 32K. Can't do anything like 140 or 78K

SwatterDisk
- Disappears on a reboot, and can't be booted from.
- Up to 4 disks, sizes anything of an integral K from 16 to 3072.
  Not tied to any slot/drive
- Ejectable and recreatable from GS/OS (no resizing while keeping the
  contents around) on the fly
- When not in use, memory can be deallocated back to the system
- Not available from ProDOS 8, but contents untouched.

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   This has been posted to c.b.a2, and on ftp.cco.caltech.edu. Can
someone repost this to GEnie for me, please?

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