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From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Richard C. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Stuffit 1.5.1 and background tasking
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Date: 19 Jan 90 17:16:06 GMT
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In article <3877@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, ar4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes) writes...
><8372@portia.Stanford.EDU> thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) writes:
>>[backgrounding Stuffit]
..
>BEWARE! The background operation is very slow if you are used to running
>Stuffit in the foreground! Just a pet peeve of mine...

I've found it can be noticeably speeded up if you can hide Stuffit's windows
somehow, either via the beta MultiFinder, or a "make invisible" FKEY, or
whatever.

I guess it saves Stuffit all that screen updating...

rich