Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!kaoa01.dec.com!curzon From: curzon@kaoa01.dec.com.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: US DOUBLER SLOWER SOMETIMES?? Message-ID: <8133@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 09:49:18 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.8133 Posted: Wed Feb 18 09:49:18 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Feb-87 20:08:10 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 22 Spartados and Action users: Question for y'all -- before putting bread on the line to buy Spartados/US doubler (mainly for use with Action programming) I want to clear something up: I have heard that the hi-speed write and read applies only to binary files; and that Sparta with doubler actually works more slowly than other DOS's with other file types. Specifically, does it really work more slowly reading/writing Action source code files, than say Smartdos etc? Dick Curzon Digital Equipment of Canada PO Box 13000 Kanata Ontario K2K 2A6 Canada. (DEC E-NET) KAOA01::CURZON (UUCP) {decvax, ucbvax, allegra}!decwrl!kaoa01.dec.com!curzon (ARPA) curzon%kaoa01.DEC@decwrl.ARPA