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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench improvements
Message-ID: <3050@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 11:33:23 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 18 11:33:23 1987
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Reply-To: jmpiazza@gort.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza)
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In article <8704172157.AA15623@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	This is only the third time I've made this comment... stick all the
>icons in a single file (say, .icons) per directory, and all will be fine 
>as far is workbench is concerned.  There are two reasons why I don't use
>the workbench:
>
>	(1) Way too slow due to having to search the directory

	Hear hear (here here?)

>	(2) .icon files make the directories too messy.

	Huh?

	After following previous discussions I wonder how many people
realize that the Mac collects icons and other info from each file and puts
in a directory file called "Desktop."  I also wonder if other people realize
that the Mac isn't nearly as slow as the Amiga for directory listings.

	The workbench without a directory file (or what ever you want to
call it) will always be too slow for many people (including me).  We have
880K per disk; a directory file should never take up more than half of the
odd 80K.

	I hope that burning AmigaDOS 1.2 into Amiga 2000/500 ROMS doesn't
stick us without a directory file as long as the time I waited for 1.2
to be be released and to receive my Aztec 3.4a update.  :-)

	Tally ho, I'm in.

Flip side,

	joe piazza

--- Cogito ergo equus sum.

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