Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:38146 comp.sys.amiga.tech:6565 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!mailrus!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!grad2.cis.upenn.edu!ranjit From: ranjit@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Ranjit Bhatnagar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Saving Disk Space (was Re: Relying on ARP) Message-ID: <13579@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 9 Aug 89 04:14:21 GMT References: <12878@well.UUCP> <26758@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <934@corpane.UUCP> <796@medsys.UUCP> <13549@netnews.upenn.edu> <422@eagle.wesleyan.edu> Reply-To: ranjit@grad2.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Ranjit Bhatnagar) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 25 In article <422@eagle.wesleyan.edu> jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes: >In article <13549@netnews.upenn.edu>, I wrote >> I'm curious about the interaction of these 'cruncher' programs >> with the Resident facility. > >I suspect if you made a crunched program resident you would meet with a very >large guru, rather than losing some memory. Solution: don't. Will emacs even >work from a resident state? I can't imagine such a large program is coded well >enough. In fact, that turns out to be the case. I got PowerPacker last night and tried it out with ARes and Rez (but not Commodore's Resident). Packed programs which are made resident tend to crash. No problem - I don't like to make big programs resident anyway; with only one floppy drive and no hard disk, the packer is definitely worth it. By the way, I used to run the 1.2 extras emacs under Rez with no problems. These days I use dme because it's smaller. (But now that I have the packer, I can go back to big disk-hungry editors.) - ranjit "Trespassers w" ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu mailrus!eecae!netnews!eniac!... "Such a brute that even his shadow breaks things." (Lorca)