news@decwrl.DEC.COM (News) (05/18/87)
Hello, After doing everything needed to make sys 4.1 stable, I noticed that my Jasmine 80 meg, which hovers around 22 meg free, wasd down to 7.7 meg free! I thought, 'oh know, the desktop is humongus...', but that is not the case. I saw my System file is now 15.8meg!!! I took a new system 4.1 file (About 318k or so) and reloaded my DA's,Fkeys and Fonts, which put it to 858k, which is right. Then I went to update a DA in my system called Tiler, with a new version (1.5). I loaded it into Font/Da mover (3.5) and clicked it, it showed Tiler is 11908 bytes, I said to move it to the system and it 'crunched' for a bit and voila! 7.7meg has been swallowed and I now have a 8 meg system file! What is going on??? The Font/DA mover 3.5 showed Tiler is 11908 bytes, why did it allocate 7.7 extra meg??? Also, If you delete a Font or DA, is the space reclaimed in the system file? I think the above is a BIG BUG in the new FONT/DA mover. Phil Hunt