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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 18:49:07 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
- Message-ID: <877.6651T750T1424@gramercy.ios.com>
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- >>funny. One has to wonder what the Amiga's doing that takes it so long
- >>with a few dozen (hundred is even slower) listings in a directory...
- >Yep, this is one of the things that still irritates me about workbench.
- >in "view by name" mode you can't drag the list, and if there are hundreds
- >of files you may not even be able to look at the names in the first place -
- >I have a directory containing hundreds of files, and if I look at it
- >(even in a "by name" mode) with WB I run out of chip mem. So I do dir |
- >muchmore, or open a filerequester from multiview or something.
- >Adam Atkinson - ghira@mistral.co.uk / etlaman@etlxdmx.ericsson.se
- >Man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
- Yeah, it's a pain. It seems to load into memory all of the icon image
- and other data even when you use view by name, in fact, it seems to waste even
- more memory than viewing by icon.
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