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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Speeding up directory access time
Message-ID: <8802010716.AA01235@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 1 Feb 88 07:16:43 GMT
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>	  It seems to me that maintaining a directory of the floppies currently
>	in the drive(s) in RAM would solve this.   Since (I assume) the system
>	is aware of human disk manipulations this should not be too difficult
>	to implement.

	This is what commercial programs like FACC do for you... Cache floppy
data.  Still, it is relatively easy for an application to do its own 
directory caching.  Simply remember the directory you read in, and only rescan
if it has been modified (by looking at the timestamp on the directory).

						-Matt