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- From: Jaspal Singh <Jas@phalanx.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: .fastdir file
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 96 17:24:08 GMT
- Organization: ACME Chickens
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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
-
- Wow, you aren't using CLImate by any chance are you? No you can't be.
- Impossible. CLImate was (is?) an ancient file/directory utility like
- Directory Opus.
-
- It created the .fastdir files which were a list of all files in that
- directory. So when every you did a directory listing, all it did was read
- the .fastdir. In the old days of floppis it made quiet a speed up.
-
- Now I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
-
- -Jas
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