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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP-questions and more
Message-ID: <65476@sun.uucp>
Date: 24 Aug 88 16:41:35 GMT
References: <142@tekn01.chalmers.se>
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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In article <142@tekn01.chalmers.se> (Kristian Wedberg) writes:
->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.

That is the latest version and yes there is a bug in the copy command.
The problem is that the ARP routine for reading all of the files in a 
directory sorts them first and then returns the list, so when they get
written to the new disk they aren't in a very good order. I've written
another module called HashSort() which sorts file in hash order to make
this problem go away. Should be in the next release.

--Chuck McManis
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