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From: hcm@hpclla.HP.COM (Harry Muttart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Large directory or many small directories?
Message-ID: <5370004@hpclla.HP.COM>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 22:06:01 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  4 22:06:01 1987
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There actually is a (generic) "Dirutil" that will handle large directoies...
The one written in Modula-2!  If you happen to have a TDI compiler, you can
bump it up from the default 300-files-per-directory limit, trivially.  

Incidentally, the author (sorry, can't remember name), indicated that he 
wrote this tool, in part, to be able to list the M2: (module library) directory
for TDI, which contains over 200 files.  Other dirutils seem to quietly stop
reading entries!

Oh yeah...the program with source can be found on one the Fish disks in the
50's or 60's.  The name is DuM2, which is probably why few have heard of it 
(who would bother browsing a directory whose name suggests "dumb, too").

Harry Muttart         hpda!hcmutt      

(Just my opinions above, not my employer's.)