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Article #2082Re: .fastdir file
From: Jaspal Singh
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 17:24
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 17:24
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Eric Layton (elayton@zola.math.byu.edu) wrote: : What is the .fastdir file that I find in some directories? What does it : do, how does it do it, and how is such a .fastdir created? : : -- Eric elayton@zapotec.math.byu.edu Wow, you aren't using CLImate by any chance are you? No you can't be. Impossible. CLImate was (is?) an ancient file/directory utility like Directory Opus. It created the .fastdir files which were a list of all files in that directory. So when every you did a directory listing, all it did was read the .fastdir. In the old days of floppis it made quiet a speed up. Now I could be wrong, but I don't think so. -Jas -- .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. !Email Jas@phalanx.demon.co.uk (ACME Chickens) ! !Midges T-Shirt saying : The only person to ever enter Parliament with ! ! : honest intensions was Guy Fawkes ! `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mail2news.demon.co.uk!phalanx.demon.co.uk From: Jaspal Singh <Jas@phalanx.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: .fastdir file Date: Sat, 23 Mar 96 17:24:08 GMT Organization: ACME Chickens Message-ID: <9603231724.AA001df@phalanx.demon.co.uk> References: <4j1n4v$5ks@jan.et.byu.edu> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: phalanx.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [AMIGA 1.3 950726BETA PL0] X-Mail2News-Path: relay-4.mail.demon.net!post.demon.co.uk!phalanx.demon.co.uk