Fellow Monks,

I have a program that was written for work, which helps customers to find the right product for them and has all kinds of specs. The program uses Tk and is compiled with perl2exe. We are going to be giving the program out on CD's and the problem I am having is this:

When using the program, if you sit at one of the screens long enough for the CD-ROM to spin down, and then you click on a button (which will load a new window) the program stalls while the CD-ROM spins back up. It can be quite a delay on some CD-ROMs.

So my question is how can I either load the program into memory so it no longer relies on the CD-ROM, or is there something I can do to keep the CD-ROM spinning?

Thanks for any help.

In reply to Running a program off a CD by metlhed_

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