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From: tim@j.cc.purdue.edu (Timothy Lange)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: DOS directory access
Keywords: function dos c directory
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Date: 23 Jun 89 15:22:39 GMT
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I think you are seeing the result of disk buffering.  The first DIR
command had to go to the disk, the second just read what got buffered.
How many buffers are set in your CONFIG.SYS?  How many files in the
directory you looked at?
-- 
Tim Lange.

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