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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Appdisk + Appsizer?  Where Appsizer?
Message-ID: <0B01FFFB.glpbjw@outpost.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 91 03:25:29 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Peirce Software
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In article <1991May26.155851.47082@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>, kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:
> In article <0B01FFFB.gkj3bx@outpost.UUCP>, peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes:
> > 
> > In article <1991May26.000450.47076@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>, kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:
> >> If anyone is needing a temporary ram disk, (system 7 only, sorry), let me 
> >> direct you to a program called appdisk.  It does an absolutely terrific job at
> >> giving me a temporary 1MB ramdisk, and then going away when I don't want it
> >> anymore..(yay!)..also freeing the memory.  This is a fabulous ramdisk if you
> >> need one..!
> > 
> > I agree AppDisk is very slick.  Well done!
> 
> I've sent the AppDisk.sit.hqx file to comp.mac.bin, and to sumex-aim.  Should
> show up within the next few days.
> 
> (Apologies to Mark Adams.  I hope lots of people send their shareware
> payments...)
> 
> > I keep AppDisk in my Apple Menu folder for easy access.  When I
> > invoke it, I just hold down the control key to invoke AppSizer first
> > so I can allocate as much memory to AppDisk as I want this time around
> > (I change the size based on what I'm going to do with it this time).
> > -- michael, creator of AppSizer 
> 
> Michael, 
>   This AppSizer you wrote sounds like a handy little utility...are you
> releasing it commercially or shareware or freeware or what?  The net needs to
> know!

I posted AppSizer to the net last January when I released version
2.0.  It showed up on comp.sys.mac.binaries at one point and I *think*
it made it into the SUMEX archive.  If anyone wants it, I'd be happy
to send it to them.  It's shareware.

-- michael

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