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- From: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
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- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 21:36:22 GMT
- Organization: a Graveyard of Empty Bottles
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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...
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- This is because the directory information is spead over the disk rather
- than being stored in one place. It makes a 'dir' slower but it is much
- easier to recover files if your media corrupts.
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- Use DC-FFS if it bothers you.
-
- C-YA
- Jon
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