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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Want to boot FAAAST?
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 96 18:20:29
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- Lee Kindness (cs2lk@scms.rgu.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Andreas Mixich (humpty@TOMATE.TNG.OCHE.DE) wrote:
- : : uj3w@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote about "Re: Want to boot FAAAST?" on
- : : "05-Mar-1996 14:48:28" at zer.COMP.SYS.AMIGA.PROGRAMMER:
- :
- :
- : : > I have made a program that copies ENV variables on demand and therefore
- : : > saves lot of memory and time. Unfortunatley it has a nasty bug :-(
- :
- : : This could be a cool thing ! Sad it is buggy.
- :
- : What is wrong with simply copying ENVARC: to, say, SYS:env and assigning
- : ENV: to there?
-
- 1. It's slower than copying the environment variables to RAM _once_ and using
- them from there. I myself use environment variables commonly for AmigaDOS
- scripts - keeping them on disk would slow things down quite a bit.
-
- 2. Any temporary environment variables (e.g. produced by clicking Use rather
- than Save in a prefs program) will be saved there too and still be there after
- a reboot. That is unless you delete the contents of SYS:Env before copying
- ENVARC: into it, of course.
-
- -- Mat.
-