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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
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Subject: Re: Initial Opinion of Amiga
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Date: Mon, 17-Nov-86 16:07:09 EST
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	Actually, my last posting on this subject had an error in it.  I
forgot to take into account the fact that the Amiga uses / at the head of
a path to refer to the previous directory rather than '..'  I never did get
used to that so I allow you to use '..' in my CD command in my SHELL.

>From: gary@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad)
>  Yes, tradeoffs have been made trading off directory access times for file
>access times,  but doing a directory on the Amiga is no slower than doing
>a directory on an IBM PC's floppy disk.  It appears to be slower because the
>entire directory is read in and SORTED before printing it.  If you want
>immediate response (and an unsorted dir) use list.

	Sorry Gary, Directories on a PC are quite a bit faster than on the
Amiga whether you sort them or not.  Let's at least get our facts staight
when we argue.

					-Matt