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- From: goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: pcfs (PC-DOS filesystem) performance
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 13:35:41 GMT
- Organization: Uppsala University
- Lines: 25
- Sender: goran@solaris.astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback)
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- References: <seltzer.721096843@bearsan>
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- In article <seltzer.721096843@bearsan>, seltzer@sda.com (Wayne Seltzer) writes:
- |> Pardon me if this has been discussed before...
- |> Is there any way to improve the performance of Sun's pcfs?
- |> Reading and writing DOS floppies using pcfs is amazingly slow.
- |>
- |> I thought I remember hearing about some commercial products that
- |> do the same thing, but with better performance.
- |> I don't want to emulate DOS; just read/write DOS floppies.
- |> --
-
- Get hold of the pd Mtools package, it reads and writes DOS floppies
- infinitely faster than pcfs. The only disadvantage is that it's
- command driven, the disk is not mounted, so it can't be seen by
- the filemanager.
-
- --
-
- Goran
-
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- Goran Hammarback | goran@astro.uu.se
- Astronomiska Observatoriet |
- Uppsala Universitet |
- S-751 20 SWEDEN |
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