Re: Balloon 2.0 - Slow!

[kgagne@iii2.iii.net (Ken Gagne)]

Matt Portune (mportune@telerama.lm.com) 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!!

: 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...

Ha! I posted that bug to GEnie and I was the only one suffering from it...
apparently not. It's good not to be alone. :)

-Ken Gagne