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From: sbm@purdue.UUCP (Steven B. Munson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacTerminal query
Message-ID: <1093@arthur.purdue.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 20:47:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 22 20:47:06 1985
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Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
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Summary: The solution


     Here is a message I saw in info-mac that describes how to make
MacTerminal stop periodically accessing the disk:

> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 85 21:56:10 est
> From: Roy Leban <roy%farg.umich.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>
> Subject: MacTerminal disk access [a better solution]
> 
> If you're annoyed by MacTerminal accessing the disk every 8.3 seconds, you
> can patch the delay time as follows:  Using some program like FEdit, search
> for the hex constant 0000 01F4 (decimal 500), which is the number of ticks
> between saves.  In MacTerminal 1.1, this is at Sector 67(10), byte 012C (or
> byte 1072C) in the resource fork.  The value 0000 FFFF is a little less
> than 7 minutes.  If you want to change it to infinity, make it 7FFF FFFF
> just in case it's being used as a signed value.  This information comes
> very indirectly from the Yale Mac user's group (whose name I don't know).