AmigaOS3.5 (785/968)

From:Uffe Holst
Date:28 Jan 2000 at 11:37:51
Subject:Re: Memory usage (ENV:)

From: Uffe Holst <uhc@post6.tele.dk>

In a message of 28-Jan-00 Colin Wenzel wrote:

> My ENVARC: is 321K on my machine, that's why I use HDENV
> & keep my ENV: on my CACHE: partition instead of copying it to
> ram: everytime I boot up...

> What bright spark decided it was a good idea to copy the
> damn lot to ram: on every reboot ???

> H&P, why don't you just allow ENV: to be assigned to ENVARC:
> by default, & only copy & re-assign it, if you want to....

No, the the contents should definitely be copied from ENVARC: to
ENV: - I agree there is a lot of detritus in ENVARC: and therefore
I also use HappyENV, so only the needed files are copied to ENV:

> At the moment, various pref tools complain
> if it is in the same place.....

There is a very good reason for having both ENV: and ENVARC:

Uffe Holst

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