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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Script bits
Message-ID: <11221.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 15 Feb 91 00:03:42 GMT
References: <18ac1a05.ARN2ae4@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> <1991Feb13.013917.22130@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG.
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Quoted from <1991Feb13.013917.22130@sugar.hackercorp.com> by peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva):
> In article <18ac1a05.ARN2ae4@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au writes:

> > having the machine check to see if a file is a script, is plain dumb.
> 
> Why?

    Count up how many accesses are required on the file to determine
    whether it's a script, using either method.

    In the worst case, running a script frequently as part of another
    script on a floppy, you'd want something a bit more efficient
    than "if LoadSeg fails LoadScript".

> <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
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