john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) (03/28/88)
I wrote a couple of small FaccII control programs for a friend who has it;
he's running on 512K so Facction is a bit large to keep running all the time.
These are:
lowmem - same as "facction -l 1"; the default low memory action is
'ignore' despite the documentation's saying otherwise
freeze - allows you to control cache freezing, for finer cache
control than strict LRU (especially useful for those with
512K since you may be running with a small number of buffers)
I have a couple of questions though. Why is the default lowmem action 'ignore'?
Why are there so many errors and omissions in the Programmer's Manuals?
For instance the _name_ of Facc II's public port is omitted ("Facc.Port-ASDG"),
the message port structures are missing underscores (mnReplyPort?), and the
way of GetMsging FaccII's replies to your messages is I think incorrect.
Perry or Eric, is there a more recent version of FaccII that has the manuals
touched up? Also why not include a number of such tiny FaccII utilities
with FaccII as alternatives to Facction?
I'll probably post these programs in the next few days; at 1.6 and 2.2K
respectively they ought to be handier than Facction for those with only
512K.
John