home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: pravda.aa.msen.com!not-for-mail
- From: crandall@mail.msen.com (Chad Randall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Want to boot FAAAST?
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 13:19:28 GMT
- Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, MI.
- Message-ID: <4i6i10$o65@pravda.aa.msen.com>
- References: <4hhk7s$62g@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <68771855@0humpty.tomate.tng.oche.de> <4hotcm$spd@roadkill.scms.rgu.ac.uk> <439.6642T928T2853@ifi.uio.no> <4i6arr$786@info.epfl.ch>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: conch.aa.msen.com
- X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0]
-
- Philippe Vez (vez@de.epfl.ch) wrote:
- : Ludvig Pedersen (ludvigp@ifi.uio.no) wrote:
- : : >: > 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?
- :
- : : You said it yourself: "Copying"
- :
- : : That takes time! :)
- :
- :
- : I have an alternative.
- :
- : I assign ENV: to RAM:Env as made in the startup, and
- : I "Assign ENV: SYS:Storage/env-storage ADD"
- : So when someone will read for example overscan.prefs, it didn't find it in
- : ram:env but in env-storage, Click use and it saves it in ram:env (the primary
- : assign)..
- :
- : Should this not work ?
- :
- :
- I was pondering the same idea. It seems sound in it's theory. But I'm
- not sure why no one has mentioned or offered it before now. Why did
- C= not do this in the first place? There has to be something overlooked.
-
-