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From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Dead-End Alerts and Guru's (Was Re: Suggestion for 1.4)
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Date: 20 Jun 88 15:43:58 GMT
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In article <62300007@hobbiton> choinski@hobbiton.prime.com writes:
>
>[Halt, Evil Line Eater, and return to whence thou came!]
>
>A possible additiona change would to be to make the system a little more
>tolerant of errors, such that it would be able to recover more often then
>it heads off to guru-land.  
>
>The reason I gripe about this is because of the immense start-up time involved
>to re-boot.
>
>===============================================================================
>Burton Choinski                                             Prime Computer Inc.
>   At: choinski@hobbiton.prime.com                       Framingham, Ma.  01701


I just wonder a little about two partial cures (?) for the mentioned problem:
SetAlert and Gomf.

First, how do you use SetAlert ? I got it at a disk with a lot more stuff,
but don't know how to use it. I recall it should come with WB 1.3, but is
the rest of 1.3 required?

Could/Should Gomf be used together with SetAlert, and how is it used? I
have heard it is good, so I'm going to download it.

Whay the long delay of 25 seconds when starting up with a jh0: PC hard
disk? Some friends of mine have such beasts and are rather annoyed.

Any good tips for speeding up the boot sequence for a system like mine
with a B2000, two floppies, 3 meg RAM and a 44 meg SCSI hard disk?