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famus2@DMI.USherb.CA (Projet2 Famus) writes:

>>>Hi, I was wondering if anyone has C code for fast file writing to floppies.
>>>The application that I'm writing compresses the data before writing to disk,
>>>but the bottleneck is the floppy.  I'm currently trying to optimize disk
>>>writing by using a technique similar to XCOPY, but if I had code that
>>>resembled XCOPY already written that might help me meet my deadline.
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You didn't say what compiler you were using, or how you were doing the 
writes. I have found stream i/o (fopen() etc) to go about 3x faster to 
floppies with Turbo C, using setvbuf() to set a 4k buffer, instead of taking 
the default. I would expect the gain to be less using open() and friends.