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From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PowerPacker2.2a
Message-ID: <500@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 15 Aug 89 10:24:26 GMT
References: <21660@louie.udel.EDU>
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In article <21660@louie.udel.EDU>, detert@lognet2.af.mil (CMS David K. Detert) writes:
> 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

The powerpacker program itself is already crunched. It makes sense that
crunching a crunched program isn't likely to get any more savings... the author
also seems to be a little protective of his code (you can't DECRUNCH it... I
wanted to do that & recrunch it without those gaudy flashing colors when it
loads but no luck).

> 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.

These were probably either SYMBOL or DEBUG hunks (I only tried to crunch one
program that had a hunk type other than these that it didn't recognize). Run it
through the included HUNKLAB to get rid of them & try crunching again.
 
The only thing I don't like about PowerPacker is you need a lot of memory...
you need significantly more memory than the size of the program being crunched.
Not very convenient for some things... seems like there should be a crunch
to/from disk option.

> 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).

You can really save a lot of time by making an ARChive of all those commands
and then PKAX'ing it into RAD in the background. (I.E.: make an archive
CSTUFF.ARC. At the beginning of your startup sequence do COPY CSTUFF.ARC RAD:
then CD RAD: then RUNBACK PKAX RAM:CSTUFF.ARC and then delete the stuff at the
end of your ss. Or something like that. That's what I did; my startup sequence
including about 30 CLI commands, FastFonts, PopCLI, ConMan, and Browser takes
less than 40 seconds).

> Cheers and thanks again for another UseNet goody, Dave
> 
> CMSgt David K. Detert     MILNet:  detertlognet2.af.mil
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James A. Treworgy
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