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- From: sb03678@dsa.dsa.dassault.com (Ian Ferris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: .fastdir file
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 06:39:55 GMT
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- Eric Layton (elayton@zola.math.byu.edu) wrote:
- : What is the .fastdir file that I find in some directories? What does it
- : do, how does it do it, and how is such a .fastdir created?
-
- : -- Eric elayton@zapotec.math.byu.edu
-
- I have seen this file created by a few programs which provide a
- graphical interface to the CLI; unfortunately the only name of
- such a program which comes to mind is "CLI Wizard" which came
- with my Amiga 2000 when I bought it in 1989 (so most people
- probably won't have heard of it). I believe that
- what it does is store a list of files in the directory the first
- time you ask the program to list the directory; then when you
- ask again it just prints out the list from the .fastdir file.
- (This sort of program usually has an "update directory list"
- command.)
-
- I don't know if there's anything "special" about creating such
- a list, other than figuring out how to use dos.library calls,
- which are not very well documented in the Commodore manuals.
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