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From: ecs165s052@deneb.ucdavis.edu (0000;0000013882;4000;250;216;ecs165s)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite on shelves
Keywords: FullWrite packed code
Message-ID: <1947@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 16 May 88 00:53:19 GMT
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In article <12788@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes:
>I did some digging with TMON (and removed the demo text from my demo version)
>and found out that FullWrite uses packed code resources. It checks if the code
>is packed and unpacks every time it loads from disk. Unfortunately it has a lot
>of code resources to unpack when it starts up, so it is very slow. Fortunately
>it does check first if the code is packed (I bet they use an unpacked version
>of FullWrite at Ann Arbor and Aston Tate). I wrote a small FKEY that saves a
>code resource once that it has been unpacked. It worked fine, but I haven't had
>time to do any serious experimenting. Of course an unpacked version of FullWrite
>no longer fits on a disk, but then again...who cares.


PLEASE!!!!! POST THIS FKEY!!!!!!!!

Since FullWrite won't run on floppies anyway, why doesn't Ashton Tate make
an "installer" like PageMaker 3.0 that would do this trick.

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