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From: d85_kitte@tekn01.chalmers.se (Kristian Wedberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ARP-questions and more
Message-ID: <142@tekn01.chalmers.se>
Date: 23 Aug 88 23:44:58 GMT
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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[munch away...]

Hi there!

For my first posting to the net I have the following questions:

What, exactly, is 'handler'-code?
In Dmouse, for instance, Matt Dillon has 'extracted' the handler-code,
but what is the benefit of that?

Secondly, what is the latest version of ARP?
I use version 1.1 release 2, but have a small problem with it. 
If you use a disk a lot, the disk-access gets slower since the files
tends to get chopped up in small pieces, scattered all over the disc.
Therefore, I sometimes do a 'COPY df0: to df1:' to reorganize the 
block-allocation. As it turned out, this didn't work very well with
the ARP copy-command.

My suspicions made me do some tests, and I copied a disc both with the
ARP copy-command and with the native Amiga-one. The latter made
directory-listings no less than 35% faster! The copy-command itself
was also some 10% faster, to boot. For the directory-listing I 
used 'DIR opt a df1:'.

Then what? I checked the block-layout with 'LIST keys ...' and things
like that which confirmed the fact that ARP-copy for some strange reason
juggles the files around a bit before writing them.


So, what gives? Is it a bug, a soi-disant 'feature' or is it already fixed?



						         Kristian Wedberg


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