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Article #3176Why is erase *.* slower with 4dos.com than with command.com?
From: Antti Koivumaki
Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 06:45
Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 06:45
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I have noticed that when I use 4dos.com, erase *.* works much slower than when command.com is used. I tested this by erasing 100 files using each. I did this on an otherwise empty hard disk partition. The result: - using 4dos.com (v. 4.02), erase/q *.* takes about 5 seconds - using command.com (of DOS 3.3), erase *.* takes less than 0.5 seconds. The computer is a 12 MHz AT with a 40 MB Seagate ST251 hard disk. A bug or a feature? Any explanations? ****************************************** Antti Koivumaki akoivuma@finsun.csc.fi Technical Research Center of Finland Telecommunications Laboratory
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!fuug!funic!finsun!akoivuma From: akoivuma@finsun.csc.fi (Antti Koivumaki) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Why is erase *.* slower with 4dos.com than with command.com? Message-ID: <1991May20.064529.1764@nic.funet.fi> Date: 20 May 91 06:45:29 GMT Sender: usenet@nic.funet.fi Organization: Centre for Scientific Computing Lines: 13