Re: Make OpenOffice run faster

Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:53J9g.26891$4L1.9925@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Thanks, I have to check that out. Although, the mentioned footprint of a
whopping 167MB doesn't look all that "small".

In the 90's I could carry my MS-Works on a single 1.44MB floppy and it
still had space for data files. That's efficiency. With that software
package I could do almost everything I do today except fancy
presentations or graphics editing.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

167 MB is rediculous. We should ask Terje how in the world programs can get
this bloated.

How about 64k? I wrote my own DOS editor based on Borland SPRINT. This is a
1980's era editor you could program to emulate virtually any existing
editor of the time. My editor handles some 11 different file formats
ranging from ASM through C, Pascal, HTML, plain ASCII, and my own IDX
format for storing newsgroup postings. It can show utp to 26 files
simultaneously, and the editor automatically detects which file format is
current and adjusts the commands accordingly. So the same function key has
the same effect regardless of the type of file.

The program is an interpreter, but it is still far faster than any windows
program I have seen. It has a full spell checker that is better than
anything else I have seen bar none, and a complete thesaurus. The actual
program fits into one 65,530 byte overlay. The largest EXE is the main
interpreter at 116k. Everything fits on one floppy with plenty of room for
other utilities.

The next trick is to transfer files between DOS and Windows, so you need a
Windows editor that handles the type of file you are working with. The
problem now is if you edit the file in SPRINT, and also in the windows
editor, the windows editor will overwrite the SPRINT version, and you lose
all your data.

There is an extremely slick Windows editor that solves this problem. If you
change the file in DOS, it checks the file date and automatically reloads
the newest version. If you have also edited the file in the windows editor,
it asks which version do you want to keep. The program is called EditPad,
and there is a free version at

http://www.editpadpro.com/

There are still some very smart programmers left:)

Regards,

Mike Monett
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