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From: robp@amiga.UUCP (Robert A. Peck)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: FASTDIR (not a substitute, but a supplement for AmigaDOS 'DIR')
Message-ID: <1173@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-May-86 16:11:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1173
Posted: Fri May 16 16:11:59 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 18-May-86 13:21:34 EDT
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Reply-To: robp@dudley.UUCP (Robert A. Peck)
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Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
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Keywords: FASTDIR

The source code to FASTDIR expressly states its purpose and its limitations -
purpose: to build a .dir file that is SUPPOSED TO STAY THERE ON DISK (primarily
for the C: directories and anything large, so as to save the search time through
the links of files, and print the .dir file itself instead of doing the search
if nothing has changed in the directory in the meantime.

As for limitations, it also states that there is no error check for a too-full
disk.  I managed to post this code to net.sources but found this error not
in time to fix it but at least to report it so someone else on the net could
actually fix it.  

The code IS faster on FASTDIR C: as well as any other directory where there
are massive numbers of files perhaps scattered across the disk.   

I am no longer directly associated with Amiga and may have a difficult time
in gaining further access to the net.  I'll be attending the BADGE meetings
whenever possible and hope to continue to support the Amiga as a developer.

Thanks, folks, for making net.micro.amiga a very interesting place to be.


Regards,

Rob Peck.


ps.  Messages left for me at Amiga will be forwarded to me.   thx.