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From: ralf@ppcnet.ppc.sub.org (Ralf Sauther)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: directory help
Message-ID: <5AlNrD@ppcnet.ppc.sub.org>
Date: 19 Dec 90 07:23:15 GMT
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rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Russell E. Hoffman, II) writes:

>    There's GOT to be a faster way to get the file descriptors for every file
>in a given directory than simply opening each file individually then doing
>a _gs_gfd() on the individual files. I have thought about reading all the
Certainly there is a way :-) I know about a program named 'dir1' (which is
avaliable as source), that is very fast in accessing the file-descriptors
(it does a few #asm statements for this). Maybe there's a way to release it
to the net (it's PD).



Gruss Ralf
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