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FASTDB

Version 1.0 · Andy Gryc

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Description

FASTDB is an HP 100/200LX System Manager TSR which changes the garbage collection strategy with the intent to speed up typical database use. Freeware.

Technical details

File
fastdb.zip
Size
4.0 KB
Format
.zip
Year
1994
Added to S.U.P.E.R.
1996-11-20
Files inside
3
Author
Andy Gryc
Path
anonftp/pub/fastdb.zip

How to install it

What to send to the palmtop saves 9.3 KB

No need to put FASTDB.TSR, FASTDB.ASM, FASTDB.DOC: they are manuals, source code or supporting material. Read them here and save 9.3 KB on a 1 MB disk.

Steps
  1. This package has no recognisable executables. Download it and look at its contents: it may be documentation, source code or supporting material.

Derived from the package contents and the 200LX conventions. It installs to A: on purpose: C: is a RAM disk and every byte there is memory taken from the system.

The author's instructions
To install the TSR, copy FASTDB.TSR into your C:\_DAT directory, and
reboot your HP 100/200LX.  REMEMBER TO CLOSE YOUR APPLICATIONS FIRST
BEFORE REBOOTING!!!!  As soon as your machine comes back up, it's loaded!
(Pretty simple, huh?)

Andy's really-tiresome-but-emotionally-if-not-legally-
necessary-boilerplate Disclaimer:

This program has been "tested" (i.e. it doesn't crash) on a very small
handful of machines. Mine, and a couple of the CompuServe Team HP people
to be exact. Although the code is pretty simple, and no-one has
experienced problems,

BACK UP YOUR DATABASES BEFORE USING THIS PROGRAM!!!!!!

This is obviously a common-sense precaution, but since I get emotionally
attached to people who ruin their lives, one I feel I need to state.

Okay, so I'm paranoid.  And this will probably never cause problems.
And you'll probably be a lot happier if you use it.  But at least if
your database file comes up corrupted, and I discover that one time
out of a million it does bad things, I can say "I TOLD YOU SO--GET
THAT VILE THING OUT OF MEMORY RIGHT NOW!"

There.  I feel better.  Thanks for indulging me.

--Andy

Literal excerpt from FASTDB.DOC, exactly as it came in the package.

Send to my palmtop

The palmtop must be waiting before you press the button, or the transfer will fail. It is the palmtop that announces it is ready, not the other way round.

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