roma@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU (11/21/85)
Please -- does anyone know if I can patch my copy of MacTerminal (version 1.1)
to stop the disk from spinning EVEN when I say "Don't record lines off top"?
It's driving me batty!
Jon Roma
Computing Services Office, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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CSNET: roma%uiucuxc@uiuc.csnetsbm@purdue.UUCP (Steven B. Munson) (11/23/85)
Here is a message I saw in info-mac that describes how to make MacTerminal stop periodically accessing the disk: > Date: Wed, 13 Nov 85 21:56:10 est > From: Roy Leban <roy%farg.umich.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA> > Subject: MacTerminal disk access [a better solution] > > If you're annoyed by MacTerminal accessing the disk every 8.3 seconds, you > can patch the delay time as follows: Using some program like FEdit, search > for the hex constant 0000 01F4 (decimal 500), which is the number of ticks > between saves. In MacTerminal 1.1, this is at Sector 67(10), byte 012C (or > byte 1072C) in the resource fork. The value 0000 FFFF is a little less > than 7 minutes. If you want to change it to infinity, make it 7FFF FFFF > just in case it's being used as a signed value. This information comes > very indirectly from the Yale Mac user's group (whose name I don't know).
jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) (11/24/85)
In article <96900020@uiucuxc> roma@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU writes: > >Please -- does anyone know if I can patch my copy of MacTerminal (version 1.1) >to stop the disk from spinning EVEN when I say "Don't record lines off top"? >It's driving me batty! > To change the time constant of the automatic disk update: On an original MacTerminal, using Fedit do a Hex Search for the long word '0000 01F4'. There is only one occurance of it in MacTerminal. In decimal this is 500 clock ticks, or 8 1/3 seconds. Changing it to '0000 0700' results in just under 30 seconds between updates. This will be the second occurrance of '0000 0700' in MacTerminal. I don't believe you should eliminate the updates as they are fundemental to the way MacTerminal stores the screen. The 30 second update is much more paletable. By the way, this patch does not originate with me. It was posted either here or on Compuserve some time ago and I have forgotten the authors name. Thank him not me. -- Jim Budler Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (408) 749-5806 Usenet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb Compuserve: 72415,1200 Bogus newsgroup: net.news: Move to end of .newsrc[yn^L]? Don't be dictators, use thought.