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From: syntel!dal@stag.UUCP (Dale Schumacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: 40 folders & regexp
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Date: 9 Feb 88 13:15:35 GMT
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  <apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)> writes...
> The memory allocation for this pool is pretty bad.  Mainly, once a
> directory descriptor is allocated from it, it only gets freed when
> there's a media-change on that drive.
> 
> Hard drives never show media change, so directory descriptors are never
> freed.

Would it be possible to fake a media change for a hard drive?  If so, a
small TSR could be written that would sit on the V-blank or 200Hz timer
and cause media changes every once in a while.  I imagine a media change
on the hard disk wouldn't get in the way much, since it should be fairly
quick to reload.  Do you see any problems with this idea?

........

And now, on a different topic...
  <rogers@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> asks...
> Does dLibs or any other public domain library contain a version of "regexp"?

That's a good question.  I have a partial version of "regexp", but I'm still
putting the finishing touches on it.  The Un*x standard implementation of
this function set is really a kludge, but I assume that's how people will
want them implemented.  As far as I know, no other C library for the ST has
these functions at all.

                Dale Schumacher
                ..ihnp4!meccts!stag!syntel!dal
                (alias: Dalnefre')