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- Review by Renne Nissinen
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- What happens when you click "Use" or "Save" in some prefs program? Well, the
- prefs file is saved to either ENV: (an assign to Ram:Env) or both ENV: and
- ENVARC: (which is on the hard disk). The ENV: must be on Ram Disk, otherwise
- clicking "Use" will have the same effect as "Save". Also, on every boot the
- contents of ENVARC: is copied to ENV:. Now, this is where the problem is. On
- my system it takes about 15 seconds to copy them all to ENV: - on every boot.
- And that's where HappyENV steps in; it is a file handler that manages these
- things so that there is no need to copy all the files to Ram Disk. And
- clicking "Use" will still work the same way it did before!
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- There's not much more to say about HappyENV. Installation required only
- changing a couple lines in the startup-sequence, and I haven't found any
- problems with programs (well, running DiskSalv caused an "unsupported packet"
- warning from HappyENV but it didn't affect anything). HappyENV is a fully
- OS friendly disk handler; the only hack in it is hiding the new device from
- WB and file requesters, which is optional. I can only recommend it; it'll
- save memory and speed up booting :)
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- Available from: Aminet:disk/misc/HappyENV.lha
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- Overall: 96% ** AIO GOLD **