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From: ericb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Eric Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Save settings in A-Max?
Message-ID: <34801@mango.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 91 23:22:56 GMT
References: <009459CC.711E7900@lne.kth.se>
Reply-To: ericb@Atherton.COM (Eric Black)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <009459CC.711E7900@lne.kth.se> pst@lne.kth.se (Jesper Karlsson) writes:
>In previous post there was someone mentioning a program to save the
>settings of the Mac ControlPanel. Could someone please tell me where
>to find this program by ftp or maybe mail it to me.

I was told about, and was able to find, such a beast called "Disk
Param".  It's a startup program, just put it in your System folder, and
it lurks in the background, saving any control panel setting changes
into a disk file which it reads next time you start up.  It is
available for FTP from host [36.44.0.6], in the directory info-mac/util,
the file is named disk-param.hqx.  It needs to be uudecoded, then binhex'd,
then unstuffed -- see your local Mac software packrat for help, I did.

It seems to do the job as advertised.  The problem I have with it is that
my AMAX-II "Mac" locks up randomly when I run disk-param.  I have since
decided that I'd rather set the mouse speed, sound parameters, and ram
cache size each time I start up AMAX for the first time rather than have
it lose work for me (I'm good enough at that myself, without help :-)

Does anyone have any clues as to why this happens?  Is there another
program that does the same job but is more sociable?

-Eric

-- 
Eric Black	"Garbage in, Gospel out"
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