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steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes:
>I now have TOS 1.4, and I'm not sure what /auto/ folder programs
>I ought to be using with it. FATSPEED apparently isn't compatible
>or necessary. I have FOLDR200.PRG (probably overkill). I'm running
>DCACHE 1.0f. Is there anything else I really ought to have?

Yes, you should have POOLFIX3.PRG.  This is a program which fixes a serious
bug in GEMDOS.  The bug doesn't bite all the time, but often enough and
seriously enough that "Thou Shalt Run POOLFIX Under TOS 1.4 And 1.6" is a
good commandment to have lying around.

I don't know what DCACHE does, but it is probably different from what
CACHEnnn does.  CACHEnnn installs multiple cache buffers in GEMDOS. The
resulting speedup in original TOS and Mega TOS (1.2) is small, but in TOS
1.4 it's great.  Try this: do a "show info" on a hard disk from the Desktop
once, then do it again on the same disk.  If the second time didn't cause
any hard-disk accesses, then you're in business.  If not, use CACHEnnn
(where nnn is three decimal digits, 080 is a good place to start).

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