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From: bruceb@amiga.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaDos... (Faster Seek()'s)
Message-ID: <1091@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-May-86 19:06:29 EDT
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In article <1082@h-sc1.UUCP> breuel@h-sc1.UUCP (thomas breuel) writes:
>[..]
>-- how can I get fast seeks on a file? [..]
>						Thomas.
>
>PS: these are by no means my only questions about AmigaDOS, but they
>are, at the moment, the most important ones.

The seeks within files larger than 37576 bytes can be very slow, especially
if you use OFSET_BEGINNING.  OFFSET_CURRENT turns out to be much better,
but still not blinding.  This will be greatly improved in the next release.
Hope this helps.
--Bruce Barrett.
--C-A, SW QA