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- From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
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- Message-ID: <H.ea.fnOoS92iM_6@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: One of these days for sure
- X-News: HERMES MMAIL 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992
- Subject: Re: msa files to hard disk
- References: <1992Oct30.095601.782378@sue.cc.uregina.ca>
- <1992Nov18.122155.7585@kth.se>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:59:30 -0800
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- In <1992Nov18.122155.7585@kth.se> ravanbod@nada.kth.se (Mehrdad
- Ravanbod) writes:
-
- >How could anyone write such a stupid program that doesn't make any use of the
- >ram memory available and just reads one single track/side, unpacks it, asks for
- >diskswap, writes it, asks for diskswap etc.
-
- >Please, tell me if i have missed something or else stop packing disks with this
- >stupid packer. There are much better packers avalable.
-
- This should be in the FAQ, but the answer is put the msa file in a
- ramdisk. Of course if you have a DS disk drive, and a 700k msa file,
- your SOL, but then you could consider a ram upgrade.
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