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- From: cm6700@ccub.wlv.ac.uk (G.Nath)
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- Subject: Re: .fastdir file
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 15:11:20 +0100
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- elayton@zola.math.byu.edu (Eric Layton) writes:
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- >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?
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- . fastdir was created by a program called "CLI-Mate",
- (although i don`t know if it was a standard and used by others
- too) it is really ancient and i think it contains the directory
- listing of the drive/dir it is in. When a disk is inserted instead
- of scanning the whole disk the .fastdir file was used. It really
- helped speed up lists on the OFS system.
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- It is pretty obsolete now i think, how old is your disk ?
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- GVN
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