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From: ADRE@gec-m.rutherford.ac.UK (Tony Anderdson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: Directory listing
Message-ID: <22.DEC.1987.08:21:35.ADRE@UK.AC.RUTHERFORD.GEC-M>
Date: 22 Dec 87 08:21:00 GMT
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Merry Christmas Anyone,
 
      It  would  make  my Christmas if someone could give an answer to
the query below which I sent a few days ago.
 
      Can anyone tell me  the  variable  that  the  current  directory
listing is kept on, if there is such a variable.
 
      I've noticed that the first time you ask for a directory listing
of  a  newly  selected directory that it accesses the disk. However on
subsequent directory calls to the same directory it seems not to.  For
instance  you  can  remove  the  floppy disc and still get a directory
listing ! So I assume the listing is kept on some mysterious  variable
deep in the depths of Interlisp. Is this assumption correct ?
 
      I  wish  everyone a Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year from
everyone here in England.
                                        
                                        Tony Anderson
                                        Admiralty Research Establishment
                                        Portland
                                        Dorset
                                        UK