On Sat, 02 Sep 2000 21:20:35 -0500, I wrote:
> I have never found much more than 100k in TEMP. I don't know if the files
> used for encoding/decoding go to TEMP but surely 700k is adequate for mail ?
> I think only transient stuff goes to TEMP.
> I could be wrong, as I didn't even TRY to look at the source, but logic
> and Michael's past description of the use of TEMP makes me think I might
> be right. I'll try later tonite to encode a bunch of big zips and see
> what happens.
Well here it is the weee hours again and I've downloaded and processed
45 mails, zipped and unzipped, answered some mail, hit the chat and
Arachne homepage and I currently have about 88k in temp. I used Norton
unerase to check if there had been any surges that were erased and there
were not. The current contents of TEMP are the mail files I was reading.
Since Arachne.bat doesn't delete these mail files,(.htm) OR .txt or .rar
or .zip, it would quickly fill up with crap if it wasn't on a ramdisk.
Hmmm. I'll check to see if F8 clears TEMP.
Nope.
Cleaned up the mess from Arachne Home but there is still 88k in TEMP.
So I'll stick to my original statement that 700k should be enough for
TEMP. I WILL, however, include a warning that zipped (or otherwise
encoded files) going in or out of your mailbox will use space in TEMP.
And another warning: TEMP fills with crap. Put it on a RAMDISK.
You CAN run into a problem if the zipped files are big. (Maybe)
But I've downloaded 1.5 megabyte files with only a megabyte TEMP.
I can't explain that right now.
- Clarence Verge
- Using Arachne 1.62 for a change.
