From: jpmorgan AT unm DOT edu (James Paul Morgan)
Subject: Re: Split file downloads
23 May 1997 01:10:41 -0700
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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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