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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: Speeding up directory access time
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Date: 31 Jan 88 19:28:32 GMT
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In article <2458@crash.cts.com> haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
>	  When using various File Requester systems I notice a common flaw.
>	If I "accept" a selection, the Requester closes.  Often I am loading
>	a series of files into buffers or some such thing, and immeadiately
>	need to repeat the process.  The problem is that the Requester must
>	read the relevant directory each and every time I call it up, which
>	when using a floppy is often a bit of a wait.

The RJ Mical File Requester solves your problem.  It automatically checks
for disk changes and other application directed changes to decide whether
the files in the file list are "up-to-date" or the directory needs to be
read again.  It also has a nice "Next Disk" gadget that allows very quickly
to step through all your disks.  We adopted RJ's File Requester in A-Talk III.

The RJ File Requester is part of The Programmer's Suite, which is in one one 
of the Fish Disks (I forgot which one).

-- Marco