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From: hammen@puff.UUCP (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.sources.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh DA
Message-ID: <718@puff.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 04:36:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 04:36:01 1986
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Summary: keeper keeps the desktop file and Finder in RAM

In article <10804@amdcad.UUCP>, jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) types:
> In article <708@puff.UUCP> hammen@puff.UUCP (Zaphod Beeblebrox) writes:
> >In article <10688@amdcad.UUCP>, jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) types: 
> >> In article <45@ur-tut.UUCP> akk2@ur-tut.UUCP writes:
> >> >
> >.....procedure to modify finder to make the startup disk remain the default
> >> 
> >> NOTE: All of this is for Finder 4.1 ONLY, neither Keeper, nor the patch above
> >> work with other (older or newer) versions of the Finder!!!!
> >.......
> >> 
> >>  Jim Budler
> >
> >Keeper works with Finder 5.1, as I use it on my Lisa and Profile every day.
> >I don't know how anyone with a large desktop file (mine is 132K) could ever do
> >without it.  Does anyone know who wrote it?
> 
> It doesn't work with my Mac512, system 3 finder 5.1.  It runs and the Mac Bombs
> while closing the next application. Perhaps we have different versions, or
> we are talking about different programs entirely.  
> 
> The one I am talking about keeps the boot drive in place on a given
> disk, whether you run an application off another disk containing a system
> file or not. Sounds like 'your' keeper is HFS oriented.
> -- 
>  Jim Budler
>  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>  (408) 749-5806
>  Usenet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb
>  Compuserve:	72415,1200

	Here's what my Keeper does. On a 512K or larger machine, it will keep
the desktop file and the Finder in RAM, the upshot being that no matter how 
large a desktop file you have or how many files you have, quitting to the
Finder is nearly instantaneous.  This program works particularly well with 
hard disks (i.e. large desktop files). I downloaded it from the MacInternationalBBS and would LOVE to know who wrote it. I have discovered a couple of problems
with it: one is with WayStation 2.1 (a minifinder substitute) and one deals 
with using the font/da mover and adding/removing fonts and da's. (you don't
see a reduction of the size of the system file, and you can crash by trying
to access a DA that is not in the system anymore). I have been using it for
two weeks now, on both a Lisa 2 with a 10 meg profile and Finder 5.1/System
3.0 and a Mac Plus with Hard Disk 20 and same System/Finder. I have not tried
it extensively on a 512K Mac, and wouldn't even think of trying it on a 128K
Mac. I have also not tried it with other Finders and Systems. I do not believe
it is dependant on HFS, as I'm running MFS on the Lisa and HFS on the Mac
Plus.

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