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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Help! GetDiskObject()
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Date: 13 Dec 89 23:52:19 GMT
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In <864@tardis.Tymnet.COM>, jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
>In article <891@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>In <8886@cbmvax.UUCP>, mks@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael Sinz - CATS) writes:
>>>Wrong...   The .info file is a list of icons in the directory that workbench
>>>uses to load the icons more quicly.  (Does not need to scan the directory)
>>>This is done via file dates...  A .info file is created whenever you open
>>>a disk/drawer.  (Assuming there is space and the disk is not write-protected)
>>
>>It does? Not not my system. I want either whatever you're smoking, or whatever
>>OS rev you're running. :-)
>
>Larry, your stopwatch must not be working right.  :-)
>
>I created 60 files in the root of a floppy, only 6 were *.info files.  It
>took Workbench 25.7 seconds to look at all 60 files, determine which ones
>were icons, and display their images the first time through.  I ejected the
>floppy (to flush out any cached info), re-inserted and double click on its
>icon.  This time it took only 6.1 seconds for Workbench to display all the
>icons, since it used the list in the .info file and did not have to read the
>File Info Blocks of all the non-icon files.  It was consistant - 6 seconds
>instead 25 as long as the .info file was up to date.

Yup...  you are right..  funny, but the last time I looked at this was a few
years ago, and it seemed that it made no difference at all. I was probably
thinking of the total directory time, which remains constant, and of course
very noticable because the snoozing cloud keeps reminding you that the WB is
single-threaded.

I also received an email reply from Michael Sinz, correcting me as well. In
response to that, about all I have to say is that I _never_ put a smiley face
on a flame.

-larry

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