Re: What I want from new Workbench

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From: Storm/Cydonia
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 20:58

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David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:

: On a PC, the dir listings and updates are so much faster it isn't even
: funny.  One has to wonder what the Amiga's doing that takes it so long
: with a few dozen (hundred is even slower) listings in a directory...

That's because of the structure in which directories are stored on disk.
All over the place. :-)

As Dave Haynie said, it annoys you 99.9% of the time doing dirs, but
when your disk corrupts you'll be thankful for it!

ps NEVER crosspost to both comp.sys.amiga.advocacy and serious
comp.sys.amiga groups.

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