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- From: jsadler@uoguelph.ca (J. Sadler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: .fastdir file
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 21:17:34 GMT
- Organization: University of Guelph
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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?
-
- -Jas responded ...
- : 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.
-
- Yep your spot on there, CLImate does make a such list, and it does
- speed up the dir loading process. as for CLImate being past/present i'd say
- past (i got from a backup system from when A500's were new so it's
- definatly ancient)
-