Re: .fastdir file

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From: G.Nath
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 14:11

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elayton@zola.math.byu.edu (Eric Layton) writes:

>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?

. fastdir  was  created by a program  called  "CLI-Mate",
(although  i don`t know if it was a standard and used  by  others
too) it  is really  ancient and i think it contains the directory
listing  of the drive/dir it is in. When a disk is inserted instead
of scanning the  whole disk  the .fastdir file was used. It really 
helped speed up lists  on  the OFS system.

It is pretty obsolete now i think, how old is your disk ?

GVN
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