2.18  Why does Voyager take so long to start up/shut down?

   If  Voyager  takes  a  long  time to start up on your machine, check the
fonts  you  are using.  You can find this information in the Fonts panel of
the Settings Window.  If any of the fonts are CompuGraphic, they will add
a considerable amount of time to the length of Voyager's startup.  

   CompuGraphic  fonts  (such  as CGTimes, CGTriumvirate, and LetterGothic)
have  to be calculated every time they are used, and these calculations can
take a long time if you have a slower Amiga (it's not even very snappy on a
50MHz  '060).   The  solution is to either switch to bitmap fonts or create
bitmaps  of  the  sizes  of CG fonts Voyager uses.  Fountain or Intellifont
(one  of which you will find in the "System" drawer on your Workbench disk:
Fountain  for  OS2 and Intellifont for OS3) can generate bitmap versions of
CompuGraphic  fonts.  Once you've done this, you will notice a considerable
speed increase when Voyager starts up.

   Shutdown  is,  however, a different matter.  When Voyager shuts down, it
performs  an update of the cache file "URL-History.x" -- this file contains
history  information  about  every  URL  you  have visited.  In the General
settings  panel  of  the  Settings  Window there is a field which is marked
"Followed  links expire after xx days", where xx is a string gadget you can
change.  If you leave your cache on disk, this file can grow quite large if
the  expiry  length  is  long  (the default is a month and in that time the
URL-history  file  can  grow to several megabytes).  If this file grows too
large, it can take a long time to update when Voyager quits.

   Also,  if  you  keep  your cache on a small partition, writes can take a
long time when the parition is nearly full.  It's a good idea to format the
cache partition periodically.