Re: HardPressed

[fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)]

In article <1993Jun18.134307.18503@vpnet.chi.il.us> vagrant@vpnet.chi.il.us (Guy Umbright) writes:
>So far I am pleased with it.  Sure, it would be great if it were faster
>but I dont find the waits too bad.

It ain't gonna get much faster. :-(  I can probably squeeze out a few more
cycles in the compression routines, but you're not going to see any dramatic
speed increases.  For anyone who wants to try, the instructions and some
sample code are in the "Goodies" folder.

>                                    The only app I have found that it
>doesn't seem to get along with too well is Orca/C 2.0/Prizm.   
>
>I had most of my development environment compressed (compiler, headers,
>utils, etc) and when trying to do check for errors on a 1000 source file
>it would be able to make 3-4 passes then prizm would spaz out.

Very weird.  I used Orca/M 2.0 to develop HP, so it's probably not the
Orca shell.  Did it seem to die in the same place every time (i.e. was it
a repeatable problem or did it seem somewhat random)?

>I figure that like Pointless's first release, which worked but needed
>polish, HardPressed just has to go through a shakedown.

"There's always one more bug."  There are too many INITs and other goodies
to try, and sometimes you have to get them in just the right order for
things to go sour.  Feel free to post (or better yet, mail... newsfeed can
be flaky at times) bug reports and product suggestions.

Back to an earlier topic...

As it turns out, the note about turning HP off for 3.5" disk installs is in
sort of an obscure corner of the manual (Appendix A, which talks about
compressing system files).  It's not actually mentioned in the section on
installing HP on a 3.5" disk.  I think it ended up this way because the
install section was written with people w/o HDs in mind, so the person doing
the install wouldn't have had HP installed yet.

At any rate, it probably ought to be mentioned in the install script
itself, too.

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fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]