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David,

The reason View By Name is so slow is that every single file is converted to an
Icon (and thus stored in Chip Ram) before they're displayed.  This was the easy
way to allowing the user to select and drag view-by-name files just like regular
icons.  (Read "quick hack")

This info is from one of the former C= devs residing on bix, Mike Sinz I
believe, but it was a while back that I read it.

(Pardon the continued topic drift)

Seumas at Dark Unicorn Productions
([e-mail] or [e-mail])