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From: burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Speeding up disk accesses - Food for thought.
Message-ID: <1360@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 90 20:55:55 GMT
References: <361@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
Reply-To: burton@mitisft.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE)
Organization: Unisys Network Computing Group, San Jose
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In article <361@marvin.moncam.co.uk> emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) writes:
>Several postings in recent weeks have prompted me to post this.
>
>Whenever I've formatted a hard disk I always begin by building the directory 
>trees first, (that is, with NO FILES IN THEM). I have a small batch file
>on floppy which does most of this automatically. Another small programme
>creates this batch file if I want to copy/rebuild an existing disk.

Any chance you could post these small batch files.  They sound genuinely
useful.






>
>Dave E.



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