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In article <1992Sep7.114632.17745@infodev.cam.ac.uk> nas20@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Smith) writes:
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>Nice! Personally I am so sick of that screen (having seen it daily since last
>November) that long ago I stuck a short hack module by Brian Brunswick in my 
>boot sequence which stops the screen appearing. It might even speed up the 
>desktop entry by a second or so ... I thought Brian had posted the module to 
>Newcastle - but I may be wrong.

That module sounds useful, particularly for hard disc ARM2 users - the
start up is the most painful bit with RISC OS 3 and ARM2.

One way to speed up display of the RISC OS 3 Title Screen, if you have
a hard disc, is as follows:

Once the title screen has been displayed, and you are in the desktop,
type *SAVEFONTCACHE <filename>.

Now, in your system !Boot file, include the line *LOADFONTCACHE <filename>
BEFORE the desktop starts up. I don't think this is possible if you have
a single file !Boot (rather than application directory) created by the
automatic 'Desktop Boot' facility.

This makes the start up much quicker. I'm currently looking into another
way of drastically speeding up the ARM250 machines (where the title page
display is still rather slow). Details at a later date if successful.

Hope this is useful!

Simon.
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