----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Cadman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] New here....
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Tobias Fröschle wrote: >> Did I say already that QPC2 is the most enjoyable piece of software I >> bought in the last couple of years, already? > >Thanks a lot :-) > >For the people wondering where the new release is, there are multiple >problems currently that have attacked me at once. First my new job, >which leaves me with much less time (and even less inclination to >continue programming after 8 hours of software development every day), >then my main development laptop died some weeks ago and while I wanted >to transfer the work to my new company laptop I've been waiting for my >Visual Studio licence for that one for 6 weeks now... so everything >has stalled a bit, but I'll try to somehow get out a Beta soon. Nice to hear that you are now working for a living ... :-) >While I'm writing anyway, some comments to another topic: of course >QXL.WIN files can fragment like pretty much all other file systems >(some more, some less, but basically all have the problem). But >QXL.WIN files are virtual anyway, so even if the data within the >drives is not fragmented, the Windows file still can be. Interesting ... >And it's all not that much of a problem because a typical QXL.WIN file >can usually fit into the whole RAM of a PC nowadays and thus the >buffering prevents any bigger performance impact. The only problem >there really is if the directories themselves get fragmented. In this >case a defragmenting can make sense. > >As mentioned the only way to defragment a drive is by formating a new >one and copying everything over. The easiest way I know for that is >using the CueShell application, which can copy entire discs including >all sub-directories with two clicks. I guess then that such a feature could be a part of a future version of SMSQ/E ? Yet, arranged in such a way, like the formatting command for a WIN drive, that it is not easy to do inadvertently. This, I suppose, starts to become more relevant as the size of hard drives increases in GB's of storage, and therefore more likely to fragment over a period of time. Windows Vista will no doubt accelerate this trend ... By the way, how large are people creating their WIN drives ? -- Malcolm Cadman _ When I first started using QXL.win files, I merely reproduced what I had been using on my MASSIVE (then) 1.8 Mb hard drive partitions. That was 7 X 256 Kb + the balance which worked out at about 128 Kb. To make things easy (for me) I stuck them all in one folder (wins) on the PC and named them abc.win, def.win, ghi.win.....etc and configured QPC2 such that abc.win is win1_, def.win is win2_ .... etc. I also have a 6 Kb win file specifically for QWORD dictionaries etc. called (guess what?) qword.win ( isn't that original?) I have never had any problems from these files, fragmented or not and never had need to reformat the space as has been suggested here. I have, however defragged the hard drive that they are on about every three months as a matter of routine. Cheers, John Gilpin. ______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
