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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: .info files. what are they?
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 00:22:08 +0200
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4jn0ig$pp7@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <255.6661T1334T1610@mistral.co.uk> <605.6663T1410T2586@bahnhof.se> <491.6664T545T375@mistral.co.uk> <9603312043.01ka@apsayton.demon.co.uk>
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- Alan Peter Suggitt <sug@apsayton.demon.co.uk> writes:
-
- >Adam Atkinson (ghira@mistral.co.uk) wrote:
- >> Does it STILL use them? Most of my drawers don't contain a ".info". I
- >> imaged the window position would be stored in drawer.info rather than
- >> drawer/.info
-
- Right. The drawer data is stored in drawer.info. The .info files
- kept the list of icon names so that workbench doesn't have to
- scan the directory for #?.info files when it opens a drawer. The
- .info file is timestamped, when it gets out of date compared to
- the modification date of the directory then it is ignored and
- then recreated after the directory scan if the disk was writeable.
-
- >I think it was only used by prior to 2.0, the 2.04 UpdateWB script
- >specifically deleted the .info files from the sys: directories
-
- Dunno about the update script, but yes, the .info files aren't used
- anymore since WB2.0. Directory scanning speed is much faster in 2.0
- and the need for .info files is gone.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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