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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 3609.1 | Prune unused stuff... | BOLTON::PLOUFF | It came from the... dessert! | Thu Mar 22 1990 19:07 | 22 |
| This _must_ be covered somewhere else in the notesfile, though I'm not sure
where.
The short answer is to look in an early issue of _Amigaworld._
A slightly longer answer is to toss out things you don't use:
Directory Items
devs: Printer drivers
fonts: any fonts other than Topaz
keymaps: anything other than USA0, USA1
(or whatever doesn't correspond to your nationality)
c: obscure commands
The idea is to look at what you use and toss the stuff you never use. For
instance, I tossed speech-handler, shell-segment, some "utilities" like clock,
and some of the startup files in S:, all in addition to pruning the above
directories.
Perhaps another noter can provide a more precise answer.
Wes
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| 3609.2 | Fonts is "extra" | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Thu Mar 22 1990 20:37 | 7 |
| Re: .1
Actually, if you don't use any fancy fonts, you can delete the entire
fonts directory and its contents. The topaz fonts for 60 and 80
character displays are on ROM. The only disk based Topaz font is
Topaz 11, which is a font designed to look good on interlaced
screens.
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| 3609.3 | keymaps | GIDDAY::MORAN | I'm not bad-I'm just drawn that way! | Thu Mar 22 1990 20:57 | 4 |
| You can also delete all the keymaps if the one you use is the standard.
Shaun.
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| 3609.4 | Remember ARP & PowerPacker | AYOV28::ATHOMSON | C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie | Fri Mar 23 1990 07:08 | 18 |
| Once you have set up all your printer/baud rate/screen position etc.
you can ditch the whole prefs drawer, or replace preferences with one
of the smaller PD equivalents such as qpref etc.
You can use a cruncher, such as PowerPacker on all executables bigger
than 5-10K, to save some room.
Install ARP 1.3, all ARP commands are smaller than their AmigaDOS
equivalents.
I use only some of the techniques mentioned, I've deleted Utilities and
Prefs, installed ARP, crunched anything over 10K, got rid of all
unwanted keymaps and printer drivers. I've added MEmacs, VirusX, and a
couple of other small useful things and I have almost 500 blocks free
on my boot disk.
Alan T.
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| 3609.5 | configuration? | SHIPS::NEAL_D | | Fri Mar 23 1990 16:18 | 5 |
|
What is your configuration? Crunching sounds ok but what happens
if crunched files get infected?
Dave
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| 3609.6 | | WELMTS::FINNIS | Peter Finnis at Welwyn | Mon Mar 26 1990 11:11 | 8 |
| You uncrunch them and remove the Virus where possible.
What do you do when (Sorry IF ) you are struck by a Virus.
I keep a special disk for Down loaded stuff , and test it before
it goes any where else.
Pete
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