Why does it take forever to launch an app some times???

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From: Curt Stevens
Date: Wed, 10 May 1989 15:08

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I am wondering why sometimes applications launch quite quickly and other
times it takes quite a while. I know the desktop is a sequential file,
but if I launch an app and it starts slow, then I quit and launch again,
the app starts much faster. What gives?

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From: stevens@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Curt Stevens)
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Subject: Why does it take forever to launch an app some times???
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Date: 10 May 89 15:08:58 GMT
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