Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a464
From: a464@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Stupid: What is FacII
Message-ID: <1379@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 90 13:37:17 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> po87553@tut.fi writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <3306@alva.tut.fi>
> Posted: 27 Mar 90 20:08:55 GMT
> 
> Org.  : Tampere University of Technology, Finland
> Person: Ojala Pasi Juhani
> 
> 
> I guess you mean FaccII. It's a kind of disk-buffer. But it's quite smart.
> It doesn't remember all junk you run, only the most used and shortest
> one. And if you take directory of your disk many times, it starts to
> remember it too, so when you write ls or dir or something, there is no
> movement in disk-drive at all, directory just comes up. There should be
> an utility called Facction. You can control the size of the buffer
> with it. FaccII is very useful utility, if you have A LOT of memory,
> but like I have only one meg, it's too little for using FaccII for anything
> reasonable.
> 
> Juha Tuominen, Sysop of The Amiga Project


     One important detail about FaccII which has been left out is that it is a
commercial product.  If you don't know what it is, then that probably means you
haven't bought a copy of it, so you should delete it from your disks.  FaccII
is published by ASDG, and should be available in stores.

.Bruce Dawson.