Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ziploc!eps From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: "Large Filesystem" Option in Prefs Message-ID: <1468@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Date: 5 Apr 91 07:27:28 GMT References: <1991Apr5.052436.27523@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Distribution: usa Organization: San Francisco State University Lines: 14 In article <1991Apr5.052436.27523@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> das15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Douglas A Scott) writes: >Could someone tell me what the "Large Filesystem" option in the Expert >section of the Preferences does (OS 2.0)? I cannot find any reference to the >Preferences App ***anywhere*** in the online documentation! Thanks. Did you try... the offline documentation? Large File System specifies that the Workspace should use a "lazy" (or, more likely, "very-lazy") Browser delegate. This means that you won't have to wait as long when you visit a large directory... but scrolling may be jerky. -=EPS=-