| From: | Keith Halstead |
| Date: | 10 Mar 2001 at 08:51:15 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: Stall while loading |
Hi,
On 09-Mar-01, Jeff Gilpin wrote:
>> you could simply assign
>> ENV: to ENVARC: and not bother to copy anything at all.
>
> Actually, I tried that and it doesn't work. Either IPrefs or
> WorkBench.library is hard coded to look for the system prefs
> in ram:ENV instead of ENV:.
For several years I have kept ENV: and ENVARC: permanently on my hard disc and
not copied anything during boot-up. I just assign ENV: to HD0:ENV and it has
worked flawlessly. (I have OS 3.1 but never use "Workbench" - so I don't know
if the later versions have changed this. It would seem a bit bizarre and
Microsoftesque to hard-code RAM:ENV instead of ENV: though.)
Apart from the much reduced boot up time and RAM: usage (20 sec and 900k - even
though it is only 300k on the disk) it also has the advantage that "USEd"
settings are still there after a reboot along with the "SAVEd" ones in ENVARC:
Regards,
Keith