Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:38169 comp.sys.amiga.tech:6572 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!ucsd!orion.cf.uci.edu!mnelson@vmsa.cf.uci.edu From: mnelson@vmsa.cf.uci.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Saving Disk Space (was Re: Relying on ARP) Message-ID: <2489@orion.cf.uci.edu> Date: 9 Aug 89 15:52:42 GMT Sender: news@orion.cf.uci.edu Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 26 In article <13549@netnews.upenn.edu>, ranjit@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Ranjit Bhatnagar) writes... >I'm curious about the interaction of these 'cruncher' programs >with the Resident facility. (speculation deleted) > -ranjit > > >"Trespassers w" ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu mailrus!eecae!netnews!eniac!... > "Such a brute that even his shadow breaks things." (Lorca) I'm not sure about the workings of the interaction of crunched programs and the Resident facility, but I can tell you what happened to me. I just obtained PowerPacker, and merrily went thru my C: directory crunching everything that seemed worthwhile. I didn't think about which commands were made resident. Upon trying to use a crunched resident command, ARes told me that the checksum was bad, and then re-loaded the command. This happens every time I use the command (sort of defeats the purpose of ARes). Solution: don't crunch the commands you wish to make resident. Note for floppy users: even with leaving the offending programs un- crunched, I freed up about 17% of my boot disk; enough to add lots of goodies to the C: directory. matt