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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Re: AmigaDos...
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Date: Tue, 6-May-86 23:00:42 EDT
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> Cheap directories are important on a small-disk machine.  And at least this
> method allows for essentially unlimited directory sizes, unlike other DOS
> systems popular on microcomputers today.

I don't know of any DOS that doesn't allow unlimited directory sizes, and I
don't understand the advantage of leaving the file name out of the directory,
if that is in fact occurring, since space has to be allocated for it anyway.

I do think that giving each icon a seperate file is a mistake, since it makes
folder displays unbearable slow. Why not do what the Integrated Solutions
system does (more or less) and put all the icons in a folder in a single file
in that directory?
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-- Peter da Silva
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