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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC TOOLS Ver 6.0
Message-ID: <7196@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 90 21:22:51 GMT
References: <2685@rupert.misemi> <36200008@suna7>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <36200008@suna7> haskins@suna7.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
[He is concerned about 6.0]
>Also, 5.5 is significantly slower than 5.1 when reading the system/tree file.
>Unfortunately, it wouldn't let me use 5.1 PCSHELL with 5.5 DESKTOP.  Ugh.

Even more unfortunate, 6.0 doesn't save tree files, and thus had to rebuild
the tree whenever you run it. At least the tree is accurate, but the 4000
files in 450 directories (160 megabytes) in my DOS 4.0 partition take 12
seconds to read everytime I fire up PCSHELL (and I have an ESDI drive and
disk caching as well!)

I hope the final version (mine is Beta) will at least optionally save the
tree files. The beta version only does for networked drives.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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