HandyWipe -- by John Eidsvoog
  Freeware
  Sunday, September 22, 1991

  Included: HNDYWIPE.PRG - the program
            HNDYWIPE.TXT - this file

HandyWipe allows you to do automatic or manual cold resets of your Atari
ST.  Its main purpose is to delay the booting of your computer until
your hard drive has had a chance to spin up.  This lets you turn on one
switch for your entire computer system and automatically boot up without
further user action. 


If you simply copy HNDYWIPE.PRG into the AUTO folder of the floppy disk
in drive A, it will continue doing cold resets until your hard disk auto
boot driver takes over. 



HWIPExxx.PRG
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You can force a delay by copying HNDYWIPE.PRG into the AUTO folder of
the floppy disk in drive A and renaming it to HWIPExxx.prg, where "xxx"
is the number of seconds to wait before rebooting.  For example, naming
it HWIPE12.PRG will cause HandyWipe to wait 12 seconds (a message on the
screen will inform you of the delay value) and then execute a cold boot. 
If this is timed correctly (and your hard disk does not mysteriously
disallow this type of activity <grin>), your computer will reboot from
your hard drive, bypassing the floppy disk.


Desktop Operation
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When you run HandyWipe from the desktop, an alert box will appear
allowing you to do a cold boot or "Quit" without rebooting.  An extra
alert box will verify that you truly want to wipe all memory before
rebooting.

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HandyWipe is freeware and may be distributed freely as long as it
remains in its unaltered state.