Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!darkstar!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: ExpressLoad/System Disk (was:Re: System Disk configuration) Message-ID: <13219@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 9 Mar 91 07:45:24 GMT References: <21030700384132@lax.wisc.edu> <13191@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <45329@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing Lines: 39 In article <45329@ut-emx.uucp> daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) writes: >Check the GS/OS Technote #1, it lists which files are needed to boot >and which aren't... it also depends on what the program you're running >needs. If it doesn't use fonts, you don't need the Fonts directory. If Oh COMON. Isn't that a bit MUCH? Besides, isn't ANYTHING that uses the GUI going to need fonts? Or is the 'standard' font the Finder uses built in? (doubtful, as it's be inconsistent with keeping everything in directories) >it doesn't need tools (rather unlikely though), you can trash the >Tools directory. You should keep everything in the System.Setup >directory, the CDevs and Desk.Accs directories are nice to have >around, but if you're really cramped for disk space, you can get rid >of them too. Lessee... You need the ProDOS file in the volume I get rid of the CDEVS and the Control Panel desk accessory first thing.. The most "useless" thing on the System Disk, I'd say. Sure, I hope we eventually get enough CDEVs and such like the Macs have, and when I get my harddrive back, I'll leave the CDEVs in, but on a floppy based system it's pointless. >>>[I screwed up the attributions] >>[I said the doubly quoted stuff] >>>2. What is Expressload? >> It is an ingenious method by which file running is made much faster, >>up to orders of magnitude faster. >It doesn't make file running faster, just file loading (that's why >it's ExpressLoad, not ExpressRun :-) Load, run, tomayto, tomahto.. Yeahyeah, I realize I'm technically using the word incorrectly, but I think of "running" a program as loading an executing it... and Expressload makes the loading faster.. (I guess I'm thinking about "RUN" and "BRUN" from DOS 3.3, which load and execute files) --