Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!ucbvax!DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL!TMPLee From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Another useful trick Message-ID: <900214073421.889632@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL> Date: 14 Feb 90 07:34:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 Gee I feel good tonight. All you folks who have been annoyed at having your PC Transporter enabled slow the finder down to a crawl whilst it polls the PCT's drive take heart. I got what seemed too good an idea to be true, but, I'll be darned, it worked. Set the slots up with the PCT's slot disabled. Write a little program that does the following two things: a) sets the bit at location $C02D for the slot your PCT is in (mine's in six, so it sets bit 6 = 64) b) does a ProDos/GSOS quit starting up AEPC.SYSTEM. Works like a charm. I first tried doing it in Basic under PRODOS8, but got some kind of memory manager error ("can't allocate block"). Wrote a ten line TML Pascal program under GSOS and it worked first time. 'Tis a shame that the PCT's RAM isn't available as a RAM disk with this scheme, but then, as a few of us have noted, even with the PCT's slot enabled its RAM is a might flakey for unknown reasons. TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil p.s. -- oh yes, I should point out that when you exit from the PCT the GS seems to do a lukewarm boot and resets the slots from the control panel settings so that the PCT slot gets turned off, which is exactly what you want. Now if only I could figure out a clean way of exiting the PCT other than shift, capslock, capslock, 5, . (I guess that isn't much longer than typing GSOS would be, but it surely doesn't fall as trippingly off the fingers ...)