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From: bruceb@amiga.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: AmigaDos...
Message-ID: <1134@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-May-86 13:12:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  9 13:12:52 1986
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In article <636@baylor.UUCP> peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> 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, [...]
	Apple-][ DOS (not Prodos), TRS-DOS, CP/M, MS-DOS (setable, but finite)

>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?
	One reason might be that you could not just use CLI file copies
to move your files arround.  The copy program(s) would have to keep track
of and update (insert, change, delete) the Icon file for every file copy.

--Bruce Barrett