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From: rokicki@Navajo.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Wild Card Filenames for Amiga Dos
Message-ID: <299@Navajo.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 19:31:02 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 15 19:31:02 1986
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> Basically, if I read the AmigaDOS manuals properly (and I was only able
> to borrow them for a day or two), the names of the files are not kept
> in the directory itself, but rather in the header blocks for the
> individual files.  Therefore, resolving wildcard filenames means
...
> I would have thought that it would be more useful to put the names,
> packed cheek-to-jowl, into the directory.  Then the various file names
...
> user data.  An ICON based system has lots of little files...by their
> nature, you want them to be fast and not take up much space.  This, of
...
> Michael Wagner, Computing Services, University of Toronto
> (utcs!wagner)

Very good comments, valid on every point.  I can not believe the directory
structure was defined the way it was!  Let's get this fixed and soon; the
delay times are outrageous at the moment.  OS-9 68K looks better and better.

-tom rokicki

[[  I want my Manx compiler!  ]]