Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!netnews From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: EXE2BIN in PCDOS 4.0 Message-ID: <27edeefd@ralf> Date: 25 Mar 91 11:37:17 GMT Sender: netnews@cs.cmu.edu (USENET News Group Software) Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: In article , bytehead@bluemoon.uucp (Bryan Price) wrote: }There are still some areas in DOS that make since in using FCBs. Deleting }files with FCBs is actually much faster, primarily because when deleting }you can specify wildcards in FCBs, and in the Unix style calls, you can }only pass one name. I didn't believe this until I timed it myself. I've Note that there is an undocumented indirect DOS call; if you make the Unix-style delete call via that indirect entry, wildcards are enabled, and the Unix-style delete will be just as fast as the FCB delete. -- {backbone}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf ARPA: RALF@CS.CMU.EDU FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/3.1 BITnet: RALF%CS.CMU.EDU@CMUCCVMA AT&Tnet: (412)268-3053 (school) FAX: ask DISCLAIMER? Did | It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's I claim something?| what we know that ain't so. --Will Rogers