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We have a Gator connecting several Macs over LocalTalk to a local
Pyramid and several other hosts.  Now that it's working, there's still
the problem of using Mac OS protocols to handle gigantic foreign file
systems: i.e., under Un*x, it costs nothing to "cd" to a directory of
1500 files; but under AppleShare...

We experimented with DiskTop, which seems to be a little faster than the
Finder.  Are there other strategies for bypassing some of the time-
consuming aspects of AppleShare, perhaps like building the entire desktop
for a 300-meg volume one time, and then persuading AppleShare to treat it
as a locked volume, to prevent desktop updating? 
 
We will be moving to EtherTalk soon, but I'm afraid we'll run into many of
the same response time problems with these large file systems. 
 
--Cy--    UUCP: ...scgvaxd!ashtate!cy