Re: Balloon 2.0 - Slow!

[Jeanne Chappell <momkat@primenet.com>]

mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune) wrote:
>Alexander Siegfried (ug0a@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) wrote:
>> Hey, I wonder if anybody out there did ever notice the
>> slow speed Balloon v2.0 operates at. Shrinkit GS v1.1 is
>> twice as fast, up to four times as fast when shrinking
>> to/from floppy disk since it loads the data in
>> completely in RAM before shrinking. Hey, this is a bad
>> joke!!

I have never compared or worried about the speed of Balloon vs ShrinkitGS. I 
love the convenience of NOT having to launch ShrinkitGS to unShrink a file.
>
>Well, I agree a little bit there.  It could stand to be at least a little 
>bit faster.  My main complaint is the OA-A bug to select all files.  It 
>freezes up the system, and forces a re-boot.  If you click "select all" 
>with the mouse, it's fine... but considering I'm so used to the keystrokes...

You must have a DA/init conflict.  I use the OA-A keystoke in Balloon all the 
time and it has _never hung_!


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