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In article <5571@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> rogers@iris.ucdavis.edu (Brewski Rogers) writes:
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>So putting all my little files into one big file should help too?
>the big file would be about 500K in that case, and a typical load
>of a map would need to go through just about the whole thing reading
>in the 120K of data it wanted.


Somehow I believe that if you are using this superfile thing and using
seek commands from AmigaDOS or fseek() from a compiler would retrieve the
file quite a bit more quickly than "go through just about the whole thing".
Presumably you maintain an index of  what data it needs at a particular
point, and can therefore build a table of indexes off of which to seek
to get there.  I never found out quite HOW AmigaDOS finds a particular
sector, but I doubt that it would have to read an entire file each time
just to do a seek to a particular position.

Rob Peck