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From: dmose@agora.UUCP (Dan Mosedale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Efficient RAM usage for hard-disk-less folks
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Date: 15 Aug 88 01:23:13 GMT
Reply-To: dmose@agora.UUCP (Dan Mosedale)
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>The main different thing I'm planning on doing is to zoo a lot of the
>stuff which'll be residing in C: eventually (only leaving out the stuff
>required to run the startup-sequence up to the point of un-zoo-ing
>the archive and switching C: over to rad:c) (The reason for using
>zoo instead of arc is that zoo does directory trees properly, and
>also it compresses everything instead of only text files)
>
>Doing this should give me more stuff (effectively) on the boot disk.

A much faster way to do this is to get ahold of the DosKwik pd programs on Fish
disk one-twenty-something.  These programs allow you to save your entire vd0: 
or rad: on an unformatted disk.  They are written to the disk sequentially in
their own format, and therefore read into ram much more quickly than unzooing
them.
 

My setup involves booting off a customized workbench disk, copying the 
ReadKwik program to vd0:, and then reading all my cli commands into vd0:
from a DosKwik disk.


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>The main different thing I'm planning on doing is to zoo a lot of the
>stuff which'll be residing in C: eventually (only leaving out the stuff
>required to run the startup-sequence up to the point of un-zoo-ing
>the archive and switching C: over to rad:c) (The reason for using
>zoo instead of arc is that zoo does directory trees properly, and
>also it compresses everything instead of only text files)
>
>Doing this should give me more stuff (effectively) on the boot disk.

A much faster way to do this is to get ahold of the DosKwik pd programs on Fish
disk one-twenty-something.  These programs allow you to save your entire vd0: 
or rad: on an unformatted disk.  They are written to the disk sequentially in
their own format, and therefore read into ram much more quickly than unzooing
them.
 

My setup involves booting off a customized workbench disk, copying the 
ReadKwik program to vd0:, and then reading all my cli commands into vd0:
from a DosKwik disk.


\\  "These opinions may in some way represent those of my employer...  //
 \\                     but I seriously doubt it."                    //
  \\ //  Dan Mosedale                          dmose@agora.UUCP   \\ //
   \\/                           ...tektronix!tessi!agora!dmose    \//