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From: graham@DRCVAX.ARPA
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Subject: INDEXF.SYS HAS A L-O-N-G MEMORY
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Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 09:56:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 17 09:56:00 1987
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Greetings and Compilations,

I just got Joe's INDEX program working, looks very good.  I have a question 
for anyone who is knowledgable in this though:  Why does INDEXF.SYS contain 
a record for every file that has ever existed on the disk?

The first time I ran INDEX, I noticed many files with the [?] for a 
directory heading.  I assumed these were files that no longer existed.  
Then I saw names of files that I had deleted a year ago.  Does the INDEXF 
file just grow for ever?  Is there any way to purge it so it contains only 
records of the living, and not of the dead?

Thanks for any thoughts,

Dan Graham
GRAHAM@DRCVAX.ARPA
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