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From: dprrhb@inetg1.ARCO.COM (Reginald H. Beardsley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Don Chapman's format program
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.132446.12460@Arco.COM>
Date: 17 Jun 91 13:24:46 GMT
Sender: dprrhb@inetg1 (Reginald H. Beardsley)
Organization: ARCO Oil & Gas Company
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  Has anyone gotten the format program posted by Andy on 6 June to work 
properly.  I compiled it yesterday on a Compaq LTE/286 running a slightly
modified version of 1.5 and found that it was taking over 1 minute per 
track :-(   Since this works out to over 2 hours to format a 1.44MB disk
I killed the program.  It appears to be spending all the time in the 
format_track() function.  Does anyone know anything about this?  I had
similar
experiences with another format program which I think was written by Bruce
Evans (it's been a while, might have been someone else's).  Do I have some
system anomaly?

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Reginald H. Beardsley       
ARCO Information Services
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