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Flexi-Fast by Patrick Dell'Era
Placed in the public domain, not to be sold.
What it does is, manipulates executable program files so that they may
be "fast loading" under TOS 1.4 and above. It is suggested you read the
"MAKEFAST.TXT" file contingent with Atari's "MAKEFAST.PRG" for further
information about what this making fast stuff is all about.
What's the need of Flexi-Fast? Atari's "MAKEFAST.PRG" does the same
thing. BUT... it doesn't allow working with multiple programs in one
batch by use of wild cards (* and ?). Only one program can be done at
a time. When you have perhaps hundreds of executable programs and have
just installed TOS 1.4 ROMS, this is a distinct and irritating
limititation. And as Ken Badertscher, the writer of Atari's
"MAKEFAST.PRG", himself says, "It is sort of a pain to wade through all
those alert boxes" of MAKEFAST.PRG.
So, really, I did this one for myself. And you are welcome to it.
Flexi-Fast works just about the same as "MAKEFAST.PRG". From the
desktop, you double click on it and then click on the function desired.
You can make a program fast loading, slow loading, or just check its
fast loading status. After clicking a function, the file selector box
comes up. You may enter a single file name, or use wild cards to
perform the function on a range of program files. If you indicate a
specific file (i.e. no wild cards), and it turns out that file isn't an
executable program file, you will be notified of that fact. However,
if you do use wildcards, only executable files will have the chosen
function performed on them.
For you command line interpreter freaks (you know who you are!), you
can accomplish the same things in the following fashion:
flxifast [-cs] file1 [file2 ...]
Use 'c' just to check the status of program files, and 's' to convert
back to slow loading format. If no option is passed, then the program
is converted to fast loading format. Wild cards may, of course, be
used in the file name specifications. If any option besides 's' or 'c'
('h' for example) are passed, a small reminder about how to use
Flexi-Fast is displayed on the screen.
Flexi-Fast can be used as a TTP application by changing its extender to
"TTP" or installing it as a "TTP" application from the desktop. You
then use it in the same way as the aforementioned command line
interpreter method. The advantage? I dunno...
Hope you find this useful.
Patrick Dell'Era
CIS 73157,2623
GEnie DELL-ERA