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- From: storm@ar.ar.com.au (Storm/Cydonia)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
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- Date: 20 Mar 1996 06:58:33 +1000
- Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here.
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- David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
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- : On a PC, the dir listings and updates are so much faster it isn't even
- : 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...
-
- That's because of the structure in which directories are stored on disk.
- All over the place. :-)
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- As Dave Haynie said, it annoys you 99.9% of the time doing dirs, but
- when your disk corrupts you'll be thankful for it!
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- ps NEVER crosspost to both comp.sys.amiga.advocacy and serious
- comp.sys.amiga groups.
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