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- From: dahla@mksol.dseg.ti.com (alexander dahl)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.220322.24770@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 22:03:22 GMT
- References: <1992Jul25.195150.4262@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Jul25.225659.11815@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
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- In article <1992Jul25.225659.11815@leland.Stanford.EDU> amon@cs.stanford.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Jul25.195150.4262@mksol.dseg.ti.com> dahla@mksol.dseg.ti.com
- >(alexander dahl) writes:
- >> Am I just dreaming or what. But to get something off of the
- >> net I must FTP to a PeeCee machine. To get it to mine is
- >> via Floppy Net.
- >>
- >> I cannot imagine that it would be that BIG of a deal to
- >> pass out the "new, faster" DOS driver for the NeXT floppy.
- >>
- >> Did I miss something along the way or did NeXT just decide
- >> that everyone was greatfully enjoyed with a disk drive that
- >> is slower than a Sinclair floppy?
- >
- > Well, the DOS filesystem on the NeXT *is* slow. So slow that you
- >shouldn't use the workspace to transfer files on DOS disks. You should grab
- >the mtools from the net. They are infinitely faster.
- >
- > I've heard that the problem is fixed in 3.0, although I may be
- >dreaming.
- >
- >Lga.
- >---
- > |"I don't know what it's called, but
- >Laurent Amon | we're doing one about going to see
- > e-mail: amon@cs.stanford.edu | a wizard. Something about following
- > lga@sandman.stanford.edu | a yellow sick toad. (Moving Pictures)
-
-
- Could you enlighten me on these mtools? Where are they are how are they
- used??
-
- Thanks
- --
- Alex Dahl
- dahla@lobby.ti.com or dahla@mksol.deseg.ti.com
-
- Remember: My expressions are unknown to my employer nor do they care.
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