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Article #9053Re: America Online
From: Mark Fulk
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 15:18
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 15:18
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Gee, I downloaded a bunch of binhexed files the other night. I didn't use a stopwatch, so I'm not sure what my throughput was. But if the download program uses RLL, that will help. I'd rather have a straight binary download of stuffit files, since running a simple compression on a stuffed file will usually not conserve much, and generally lengthens the file by a small amount. Caching menus: most of the time, when I explore, I close menus when I'm done with them. Then, if I return (perhaps on another session, perhaps later the same session) the menu is re-downloaded. That results in a wait. As for documents, there are lots that I don't want to save in my own folders; they are, for example, instructions or guidebooks. If those were automatically cached in the AO folder, then returning to them would be quick. I don't think, by the way, that if I save a document, then return to it _in AO_, that the saved copy is used to update my screen. In other words, it is still downloaded. This is a pain for the StockLink instructions, for example. Mark
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!fulk From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: America Online Message-ID: <1989Dec7.151821.24882@cs.rochester.edu> Date: 7 Dec 89 15:18:21 GMT References: <1989Dec4.214248.9205@cs.rochester.edu> <24761@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department Lines: 18