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From: acs@amdahl.UUCP (Tony Sumrall)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench vs DOS mods
Message-ID: <3931@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Oct-86 17:10:47 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 11 17:10:47 1986
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In article <1903@well.UUCP> kdd@well.UUCP (Keith David Doyle) writes:

>         (B)                  ...
>                              ...              I have noticed
>             a few smarter utilities lately (notably SoundScape) that read
>             the directory once the first time you invoke such a requester, and
>             keeps the list around in memory so it dosen't have to re-search
>             if you go back to the requester a second time.  Changing the
>             drive selection will still bite you though.

Couldn't this cause problems?  I mean, given the fact that my Amiga is a
multi-tasker, I create a file which *should* be picked up for display by
the filename requester but *won't* be picked up because the program thinks
that it already knows what's out on the disk?

> 
> Keith Doyle
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