Re: ProSel: The Next Generation

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Forrest <bctimes@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Jeff Blakeney <CUTjefbla@bconnex.net> wrote in message
> 36e48c13.967106@news.bconnex.net">news:36e48c13.967106@news.bconnex.net...
> 
> >Besides, if there is something you want that Prosel doesn't do, why
> >not just write a utility to do it?  It can then be easily added to a
> >users existing installation of Prosel, Orca, GNO/ME, Lisa or whatever.
> 
> First I'd like to have the standard AppleWorks editing keys available when
> entering pathnames and such; second the file copying routine could be
> improved -- not necessarily by me, but ShrinkIt is noticeably faster.  (Now
> if Andy Nicholas would PD-ify ShrinkIt that'd be =really= keen.  Edit
> ShrinkIt and Cat Doctor together and you've got probably the last word in
> 8-bit file utilities...)

That would be an interesting challenge.  ShrinkIt is already at the
limit of the size of a ProDOS SYS file, and is using all available
memory in the 128K address space.  Andy commented on this point around
the time the last version or two of ShrinkIt were released.

Where is the extra space to add Cat Doctor features going to come from,
unless you start paging parts of the program back out to disk?  (I don't
like the idea of needing to keep the application disk online while doing
other operations if you are running from floppy - one valuable drive
taken up.)

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David Empson
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