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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What is 4DOS?
Message-ID: <1905@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 90 07:10:12 GMT
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Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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lmhg0369@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>I gave the docs a cursory look and installed it on my AT clone.  One thing
>disconcerting is that the first time I do a 'dir' it takes at least a second or
>two just sitting there before it spits anything out to the screen.  Subsequent
>dirs for the same directory occur at a speed I consider reasonable.

If you look closely, you'll note that 4dos *sorts* the directory. Thus it
takes a hair longer than DOS would to display the directory. Also, even
DOS has an annoying pause before displaying a directory if you have done
*any* kind of file activity since the last dir (I think it has to re-
figure the free space).
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