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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Changing the damn icons (and a lockup question!)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.233150.10201@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Sep1.184400.1899@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:31:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.184400.1899@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior) writes:
- >I downloaded a file containing 1700 icons and unzipped them all into
- >one directory using pkzip in a dos window. At first it really zipped
- >along, but by the time it got 1/2 way done it was crawling (these
- >were 800 byte icons and should spit out fast!). Any clue why? System
- >is a 486-33 w/16MB ram and SCSI drive.
-
- This problem occurs with FAT drives (and is one reason why HPFS is so
- helpful). I won't go into the technical arguments, but,
- unfortunately, with FAT disks you have performance problems with large
- numbers of files in a single directory.
-
- Your other two questions have already been answered here.
-
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