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Subject: Re: Saving Disk Space (was Re: Relying on ARP)
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Date: 9 Aug 89 15:52:42 GMT
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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