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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 03:36:10 GMT
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- In article <bzln4z@lynx.unm.edu> jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth) writes:
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- >Well, Stacker/Superstore/etc. don't always slow down disk I/O. In some
- >cases it actually speeds things upCertain data file types (like
- >ascii, database, wordprocessing, and bit maps) get compressed up to 16:1
- >by these programs. Decompression takes very little time to do, all the
- >computer has to do is replace short pieces of "code" with the real data.
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- One of the really interesting ways of speeding up Corel Draw and
- other programs that do similar things is to create a small RAMdisk,
- stack it, and do SET TEMP = to that drive. Apparently Corel Draw
- stores images as graphics metafiles as it works, and these go to
- the TEMP subdirectory. The file compresses about 12:1 or so so the
- speedup is supposed to be dramatic.
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