Re: Bochs - Free PC emulator
Re: Bochs - Free PC emulator
- Subject: Re: Bochs - Free PC emulator
- From: Dietrich Epp <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 23:23:20 -0700
On Saturday, October 5, 2002, at 07:59 , Angela Brett wrote:
I don't see what that has to do with disk images versus other
archives... all methods (well, apart from Installer packages I suppose)
let the user drag and drop the file wherever they want. The difference
with disk images is than instead of simply moving the file, they have
to copy it, which does take a while. Not as long as it takes to
download the file to start with, but long enough to be annoying
sometimes, as it slows down anything else which is using the disk. I
know the file is on my hard disk already, and yet I need to copy it.
It's fine to have installers on disk images, because then I'm just
running the installer from the image which would have to copy files
either way. I would have deleted the installer anyway so the extra step
of putting the .dmg file in the trash is not such a hassle. But copying
a plain ol' application file from one place on my disk to another seems
wasteful and slow.
Erm... you're not copying the file as you would expect. The file isn't
really there in the first place, but in the compressed disk image. The
difference between archives and disk images is that with disk images you
drag&drop then decompress, whereas with archives it is reversed.
Hey, I happen to think that deleting the archive afterwards is a good
thing, I wish .dmgs would be deleted automatically. I've never seen
Expander delete the archive when the extraction fails... maybe I don't
have the latest version. Anyway, I'm not particularly advocating
Stuffit (I have seen it fail to open archives before, and indeed it
does chop the ends off long file names), just pointing out why I don't
particularly like disk images.
Aagh! I hate auto-delete! But that might just be me... I want to keep a
copy, and I often burn a bunch of my favourite apps on CD so I don't
have to download them again in case something happens. Nothing wastes
time more than re-downloading an app that got screwed up.
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