Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!rutgers!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms From: jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: What do you put in your Startup-Sequence? Message-ID: Date: 27 Apr 91 17:09:38 GMT References: <1991Apr24.192849.12855@ucselx.sdsu.edu> Organization: The Search For TERRESTRIAL Intelligence Lines: 32 In article <1991Apr24.192849.12855@ucselx.sdsu.edu> maxc1553@ucselx.sdsu.edu (InnerTangent - human1) writes: > >FaccII caches floppy reads into fast memory. similar to addbuffer, it helps > your floppy disk accessing when the same data is read more then once. > (huh?) ForFacc flushes this cache/buffer and give you back your > memory when all floppy drives are empty. FaccII, I should point out, is commercial. >NewPop does screen blanking (with a changing-color-Q*X pattern) and provide > hot-keys for invoking a newCLI. The screen blank can be switched on > or prevented by placing your pointer in a designated corner of screen. I use QMouse, which is a combination screen-blanker, mouse-accelerator, hotkey utility, and some other things like window-to-front with a double click and window-to-back with a left-right click. The screen blanker is just that, a BLANKER, but that's what I want. >Gomf tries to fix a guru-meditation when it occurs. Gomf is commercial. I think GOMF 1.0 was PD or shareware, but I'm not sure. >Speedup changes the rate your floppydrive reads the floppy. It can be used to > speedup your floppy read/write by 2 times. HUH? TWO TIMES? What exactly does it do? -- * From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | "You know I never knew Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | that it could be so 37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | strange..." Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (R.E.M.)