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From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk fragmentation????
Message-ID: <4099@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 17:24:01 EST
Article-I.D.: garfield.4099
Posted: Wed Oct 28 17:24:01 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 06:11:20 EST
References: <6121@sunybcs.UUCP> <242@afit-ab.arpa>
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's
Lines: 35
Keywords: loading many programs at once...
Summary: synchronizing program loading

In article <242@afit-ab.arpa>, treid@afit-ab.arpa (Thomas F. Reid) writes:
> In article <6121@sunybcs.UUCP> ugmiker@sunybcs.UUCP 
>
> I have a similar setup for my Startup-Sequence...RUNning programs
> from the Startup-Sequence.  After a little experimentation, I've
> noticed that my startups go a lot faster (dropped from over 2 minutes
> to about 1 minute) using WAITs after each RUN (and after LOADWB ;-)

If you are RUNning programs that open windows, I wrote a little "wait"
program that you can use to run one program, wait until it finishes loading
and opens a window (FACC does this, right?), and then go ahead and run another.
Advantages of this approach over using WAIT commands include
	- no tweaking of WAIT times needed, as soon as program 1 loads
	  program 2 starts loading
	- you can specify a timeout value of some number of seconds, so if
	  you are running programs from more than one disk (eg I can't fit
	  VT100 on my Workbench and sometimes forget to stick that disk in my
	  external drive) you have a chance to swap disks in and out before
	  it goes ahead and starts the next load

It's on Fish disk #73, under the name "until" and included with another
program called "add"; I don't think there was a great deal of explanation
with it so you may have brushed across it without noticing.

[ My startup-sequence was recently chopped to the bone again, but if it ever
  got too long & noisy it might be possible to make "until" wait for some new 
  task entry to be created. This would let you run things like PopCLI (that 
  don't open windows) without drive grinding. ]

John
-- 
"The Amiga doesn't really multitask because... because... because when two
 programs try to write to the printer at the same time, it crashes!"
				-- who WAS that masked ST owner?
				   (honest to God this is what he thinks)