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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: R/Ws to disk
Message-ID: <19779@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Nov 88 02:39:56 GMT
References: <Oct.20.15.02.47.1988.15102@porthos.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <Oct.20.15.02.47.1988.15102@porthos.rutgers.edu> marsella@porthos.rutgers.edu (Stacy Marsella) writes:
>It would be a big help if someone could give me a more exact
>explanation as to what is happening or an idea on how to convince
>hypercard to defer the disk I/O???

During HyperCard's idle time it cleans up RAM writing it to disk until
the state of the stack on the disk exactly mirrors the state of the
stack in RAM.  HyperCard does this so that if the power went out you
will not lose any work.  At worst you would only lose a very small
amount of work.

In short, you CANNOT DEFER THE DISK I/O.

Dan
Allen
Software Explorer