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From: ralph@mit-atrp.UUCP (Ralph L. Vinciguerra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A FaccII suggestion !?!?
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Date: 10 Mar 88 17:39:59 GMT
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Organization: MIT Amiga Users Group c/o MIT Cognitive Info. Processing Group
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Keywords: FaccII

I'm a very happy purchaser of FaccII, a product which offers fantastic
functionality at a great price. However, I wish it had one feature more:

I wish it could keep track of it's buffers with respect to specific DISKS
instead of DRIVES.

Let's say you have an Amiga with some memory, and
one (or even 2 drives). You typically are poping disks in and out all the
time. It's too bad that FaccII dumps all the buffers for each drive
when the disk is ejected. If instead it tracked the buffers with the DISK
then when that disk got put back in it (and those related buffers were still
in FaccII) they would still be available.

This would mean additional overhead, but for folks with only one or 2 drives
it would make life even better. If the feature got added, maybe it could
be enabled under user control. Just a humble suggestion. FaccII is still
incredibly useful and I'm glad I bought it.

                                        -Ralph

PS: The Compact Disk case for the disk is a clever idea, it just needs to
have the black plastic insert to hold the disk, though, just like a CD.
Mine came with the disk floating around in the outer case.

Hmm...Amiga software could be released in two forms:

  Smaller utilties and games (with short instructions) in a CD case
  (even multiple CD case combos for several disks).

  Larger programs like compilers, could come in those PC-style mini-binders
  to hold the Doc's, but still have the disks in little CD cases for safe
  storage. Then you can keep all your original software together in a safe
  place, out of harm's way, and not floating around with the manuals.

I suspect it would also be a motivation for folks to want to buy the original
software instead of pirate it. The cases have a nice "look and feel".