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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
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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


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