Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!cs.bu.edu!ckd From: ckd@cs.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Disk Express II & Desktop Manager (was Re: Desktop Manager) Message-ID: Date: 5 Nov 90 01:45:26 GMT References: <1990Oct30.163628.900@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1990Oct31.220114.14952@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1286@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> <1990Nov4.091948.24571@panix.uucp> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Boston University School of Management Lines: 10 In-reply-to: alexis@panix.uucp's message of 4 Nov 90 09:19:48 GMT I presume that since DE II (at least 2.04) can work in the background, optimizing even open files, it would work with DM as well? Does anyone have experience with this configuration? My 60M drive is not only in need of continuous defrag/optimization, it wouldn't hurt to speed up the Desktop updates, also. -- Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90 <...!bu.edu!bu-cs!ckd> "Dammit, we're all going to die, let's die doing something *useful*!" --Hal Clement on comments that space exploration is dangerous