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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: vd0: was Re: Canonical List continued
Message-ID: <1340@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 90 20:19:33 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <11854@vdsvax.crd.ge.com> perley@flash (Donald P Perley)
writes:

>In article <1317@mindlink.UUCP>, a218@mindlink (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
>>In article <1315@mindlink.UUCP> a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor):

>>>  CANONONICAL LIST OF MOST USEFUL PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE

>>Let us not forget VD0:, Perry Kivolowitz' wonderful asdg.vdisk.device.
>>RAM: is OK for transient work files but doesn't survive a re-boot.
>>I have never used RAD: and have no intention of ever doing so.

>In this case don't you mean *shareware* rather than public domain?

Oops!  Point taken.  (Our local club took up a collection
and sent our shareware fees to Perry in one big lump.)

>While you may have reasons to prefer it, I wouldn't call it a "must have"
>now that rad: comes with the operating system.  I think it was a great
>product for WB 1.2.

I still prefer VD0: to RAD: simply because it doesn't use any memory
which isn't actually occupied by files.  If you set up an 880K RAD:
that memory is gone for good; a VD0: of any size uses hardly anything
at all until you start to actually put stuff into it, and frees up
memory when you delete files in it.

>-don perley
>perley@trub.crd.ge.com

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
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