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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench vs DOS mods
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Date: Sat, 11-Oct-86 20:25:39 EDT
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>>         (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?

	No problem... When you create a file, the timestamp for it's
diretory is updated.  All the program needs to do is look at the timestamp,
and if it has changed, reload the directory.

	Only the timestamp for the immediate directory (directory containing
the file) is updated.. the changes are not propogated through the path.

	Don't you love simple solutions?


				-Matt