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Article #2085Re: .fastdir file
From: J. Sadler
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 21:17
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 21:17
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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? -Jas responded ... : 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. Yep your spot on there, CLImate does make a such list, and it does speed up the dir loading process. as for CLImate being past/present i'd say past (i got from a backup system from when A500's were new so it's definatly ancient)
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