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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaDos directory knowledge
Message-ID: <3459@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 30 Nov 89 22:22:16 GMT
References: <88.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> <8742@cbmvax.UUCP> <ANDREWT.89Nov29154933@watsnew.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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	I don't really understand all the concern about the speed of
directory listings and wildcards, at least for hard drives. I have a slow
(65ms access time) hard drive, with diskperf results like 140Kb/sec, and I
find directory listings to be of acceptable speed.  A 100-file directory
listing is quite quick.  (I use "ls" version 3.1.)
	And finding a particular program in my 8-directory, ~400-file
search path is instantaneous.

                                                        Dan

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