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From: koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Anybody know how to do this stuff?
Message-ID: <13920034@hpfelg.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Dec 89 15:09:08 GMT
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> This all brings up another interesting idea. Lets say you cached the names
> of all the executables in a path. Now searching the path would be really
> fast, and you would never look at a disk unless you needed a command from

Yeah, I think csh (Un*x) does that.  I might do it evenentually, but there's
a bunch of issues to be worked out first.

Also, Peter writes (re: bypassing disk requesters):

> Could you make this settable? With default ON in interactive use and OFF
> otherwise? Sometimes you want the requestor.

I think so.  That's a good idea, and should be easy to do.

          - steve