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- Subject: Re: Wanted: Small and fast FindTool
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 96 10:00:45 GMT
- Message-ID: <68771488@0humpty.tomate.tng.oche.de>
- From: humpty@TOMATE.TNG.OCHE.DE (Andreas Mixich)
-
- Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk wrote about "Re: Wanted: Small and fast FindTool" on
- "10-Feb-1996 00:05:11" at zer.COMP.SYS.AMIGA.PROGRAMMER:
-
-
- > alias find c:search [] all file
- >
- > which means when I want to find a file I don't have to remember the
- > syntax and to find file 'steve which is buried somewhere on dh1: I enter
- >
- > 1> find dh0: steve
- >
- > you will find it is very fast and no need for fancy find utils.
-
- Too slow for me on a 120 MB and a 540 MB HD. Thanks for the info, but with
- Find it takes two seconds, with Search more minutes scanning all the
- drives.
-
- 20.20.Workbench:> date
- Sonntag 11-Feb-96 10:53:46
-
- 20.0.Workbench:> search "" *Amitcp* FILE ALL
- Workbench:AmiTCP.info
- Workbench:Rexx/closeamitcpreq.rexx
- Workbench:BIN/PPPConfigAmiTCP
- Workbench:AmiTCP/bin/ToggleAmiTCP.rexx
- Workbench:AmiTCP/db/AmiTCP.config
- Workbench:AmiTCP/doc/AmiTCP-FAQ.txt
- Workbench:AmiTCP/AmiTCP
- Workbench:AmiTCP/AmiTCP-demo-4.0.readme
- Workbench:AmiTCP/Install_AmiTCP
- Workbench:AmiTCP/Install_AmiTCP.info
- Workbench:AmiTCP/help/AmiTCP.guide
- Workbench:AmiTCP/help/AmiTCP.guide.info
- Workbench:AmiTCP/Grapevine/README.AMITCP.info
- Workbench:AmiTCP/Grapevine/README.AMITCP
- Workbench:AmiTCP/AMosaic2/AMosaic-AmiTCP
- Workbench:AmiTCP/AMosaic2/AMosaic-AmiTCP.info
-
- 20.0.Workbench:> date
- Sonntag 11-Feb-96 10:56:46
- 20.0.Workbench:>
-
- 3 minutes on a 120 meg drive. Now imagine, that sometimes I do not know
- where a file is at all, and I have another two partitions approx. 200 and
- 300 megs.
-
- Even a
-
- c:dd *amitcp*
-
- needs two minutes for 120 Megs.
-
- Find needs max 3 seconds....
-
- --
- Ciao, Andreas
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- Corollary:
- Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for
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