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From: detert@lognet2.af.mil (CMS David K. Detert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: PowerPacker2.2a
Message-ID: <21660@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 14 Aug 89 15:03:10 GMT
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Boy, what a concept and what a program, at least on my 1.5 meg A-1000.
I just finished packing what I could and the savings are tremendous. I
haven't done extensive timing tests, but so far it looks there isn't
much, if any, discernable increase in processing times. I just packed
OnLine! 2.0 and it shrunk 80k (much more room for other 'junk'). It also
loaded much quicker, probably because it's a large program. Anyway,
after I do some more testing I fully intend to send off some shareware
dollars, this one looks like it's going to be worth it.
One thing interesting was that it would not pack itself, it ran out of
buffer space and was going at a -3 percent at that, I wonder why. It also
wouldn't touch SHOWANIM and one other program I had in my c directory (I
can't remember what it was). In both cases it said it came upon a hunk type
that hasn't been implemented yet. The RESIDENT command also didn't like
being packed. It got packed ok, but then it couldn't load to run. I can't
remember the error code. Also, I didn't pack things that were smaller than
the loader header. I kept those that were small and went simply for storage
space savings. I'll pass along any other tid bits I find over the next few
weeks. BTW. My system is floppy based, I'm not sure what speed results
one would get with a hard disk, etc. I have selected commands in a c2
directory that I copy to RAD: in my startup-sequence (that way I just do
a copy all and save time). I just remembered that my startup time decreased
>from 1:58 to 1:47 seconds (from initial screen to lights out on DF0:).
Cheers and thanks again for another UseNet goody, Dave
CMSgt David K. Detert MILNet: detertlognet2.af.mil