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From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Do you *hate* Mac CD-ROM technology?
Message-ID: <1990May29.072518.21545@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 29 May 90 07:25:18 GMT
References: <779@limbo.Intuitive.Com> <9740@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990May25.015742.25489@calgary.uucp>
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sharp@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Maurice Sharp) writes:

>In article <9740@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0228b@prism.gatech.EDU (FALCO,VINNIE) writes:
>>I made the mistake of doing a 'Get Info' on one of the folders.
>>10 minutes later (no exxageration) I got the info, and saw that it took up
>>150 megabytes. Apple should fix the finder so that operations can be aborted with
>>command period, (i.e. like Get Info). Also, I took my whole computer there one day
>>and copied a 60 megabyte folder in one shot, and I had enough time to go eat
>>at Burger King and walk back!!! This is far too slow.

>     Well, that is your fault for using a slow CDROM drive.  I have
>copied 60mb in significantly less time.  Like move the folder over and
>wait a few moments (possibly even a couple of minutes) then it is
>done.

Actually, it's possible that he has a software problem.  I remember a
notice that the latest CD-ROM software no longer tries a Get Info on the
whole volume and takes much less time than it used to.

I'd've let this go, but no one else seemed to have remembered.

	Alex
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