Re: dos_stuff

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1989 11:23

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In article <126083@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
> Generally this will help but you won't get the max speed out of the system
> because A-Dos still bunches the directory entries together (so that the
> dir command is faster) and the data blocks, and for your appplication this
> is exactly the wrong thing to do.

Is this a significant problem with only one file to open? That is, once the
file is open, will it continue to slow things down to have the header block
on a different track?
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva      `-_-'
...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com  'U`
``Back off dude! I'm a topologist!''
	-- Andrew Molitor <amolitor@eagle.wesleyan.edu>

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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: dos_stuff
Keywords: fast,faster,fastest
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Date: 11 Oct 89 11:23:49 GMT
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