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Re: GSHK 1.1 Problems
- Subject: Re: GSHK 1.1 Problems
- From: crownmi@zap.io.org (Myles Fudge)
- Date: 1996/06/23
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Internex Online (shell.io.org), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- References: <andyb.833236651@vpnet> <4oenmt$f97@usenet2.interramp.com> <4otukl$nk1@news.vanderbilt.edu> <4ov6un$reo@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
In article <4ov6un$reo@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
Nathan Mates <nathan@cco.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Shameless plug: my Swatterdisk program allows you to create a 140K
>ramdisk (or four) whenever you've got 140K free memory under GS/OS.
>With that, you can unpack 5.25" disk archives very trivially, no
>hunting for other disks or anything else. You can create those
>ramdisks, unpack stuff to them, copy everything off, and dump the
>ramdisks in the trash to release the memory.
> Shareware, available from ftp.ugcs.caltech.edu, pub/nathan
Quite a cool program, at that, too! Coincidentally, I just discovered it
this weekend, but haven't had the time to really use it yet. It's
obvious usefulness is incredible, and beats the hell out making a RAMDisk,
rebooting, trashing it afterwards, rebooting, etc.
--
Myles
crownmi@io.org