Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!fulk
From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: America Online
Message-ID: <1989Dec7.151821.24882@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 89 15:18:21 GMT
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Reply-To: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)
Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department
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Gee, I downloaded a bunch of binhexed files the other night.  I didn't
use a stopwatch, so I'm not sure what my throughput was.  But if the
download program uses RLL, that will help.  I'd rather have a straight
binary download of stuffit files, since running a simple compression on
a stuffed file will usually not conserve much, and generally lengthens
the file by a small amount.

Caching menus: most of the time, when I explore, I close menus when I'm
done with them.  Then, if I return (perhaps on another session, perhaps
later the same session) the menu is re-downloaded.  That results in a wait.
As for documents, there are lots that I don't want to save in my own folders;
they are, for example, instructions or guidebooks.  If those were automatically
cached in the AO folder, then returning to them would be quick.  I don't
think, by the way, that if I save a document, then return to it _in AO_, that
the saved copy is used to update my screen.  In other words, it is still
downloaded.  This is a pain for the StockLink instructions, for example.

Mark