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Re: Split file downloads
- To: Carl Lawrence-Slater <Carl dot E dot Lawrence-Slater at ae dot ge dot com>
- Subject: Re: Split file downloads
- From: James Paul Morgan <jpmorgan at unm dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 16:28:09 -0600 (MDT)
- cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Carl Lawrence-Slater wrote:
> Also has anybody loaded all of gnu-win32 on a Zip disk? How
> bad is the performance over the parallel port?
>
I run 17.1 for Win95 on my Zip drive because I just don't have the hard
drive space right now. The performance is not great. There is a
noticible difference between running speed on any program that has to
access the drive, plus the initial lag loading up.
If you configure programs that create temp files, such as a full compile
with g++, to use a temporary directory on your hard drive rather than the
Zip drive, it helps.
I have never clocked it specifically, so I can't give you any statistics.
See ya around the Mulberry bush.
--James
:)
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