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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.vader.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!longacre.demon.co.uk From: searle@longacre.demon.co.uk (Michael Searle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Some (more) questions ... Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 20:38:56 BST Lines: 24 Message-ID: <nC8236527@longacre.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: longacre.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: longacre.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Offlite 0.09 / Termite Internet for Acorn RISC OS I have been getting '/kernel: fdc0: input ready timeout' messages - what do they mean, can they be ignored? I am using an DOS format floppy, which is read and written to correctly, and get the messages at any time when the floppy is mounted, and often several messages when accessing the floppy. Accessing the floppy seems to be very slow, even for a DOS floppy, sometimes taking several seconds to write a 10k file (from vi). Does anyone know of a compressor for FLI, AVI or (preferably) MPEG animations? If possible, I should be able to add frames to the end of an animation file without decompressing it and compressing the whole lot,so as to use less temporary disk space. Also, is there any way of using a swap file which is only created when it is needed, and grows and shrinks as it is used? The man pages only mention permanent swap files, replacing a partition. I have a 64M swap partition for my 16M RAM, which is normally enough but I would like something that would let me temporarily add another 200M or so to it, without using up any disk when not in use. Michael -- searle@longacre.demon.co.uk