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From: aa384@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doug Wokoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: DIRT - a new DIR command
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Date: 22 Nov 90 17:46:43 GMT
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>  Ok, now the good news...I've figured out a way to convert a 3 byte binary
>number to an 8 byte ASCII decimal number.  Not very impressive eh?  Well,
>my way is fast and doesn't use any division.  It does, unfortunately,
>require a 1200 byte table.  I'm working on this method right now, so if
>it shows a significant improvement, I'll actually use it in DIRT 2.0.
>  Also in DIRT 2.0, I will include the /M and /C switches (paged output
>and count files respectively), and perhaps even support for the erased,
>in use, and open for write bits.

	Suggestion: instead of /M, use /P, so that it is the same as
the rest of SDX (I don't know how 3.2d works with respect to this)

>  Is anybody interested in a directory compactor?  It would remove all the 
>deleted & open for write files from a directory, and then deallocate
>any extra sectors the directory is using.  Interested?

	That's a nice idea!

	Another idea that I wish someone would implement is a 'MOVE' command
on the CLI (not an interactive type thing, but something on the command line)
to move files from one directory to another by moving only the directory
entry.  (Like COPY/DELETE, but much faster)

--
Doug Wokoun - (aa384)
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