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In article <5615@cps3xx.UUCP> porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka) writes:
>In article <3459@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett) writes:
>>
>>	I don't really understand all the concern about the speed of
>>directory listings and wildcards, at least for hard drives. I have a slow
>
>Try doing a "dir df0:c" with your workbench disk in the
>floppy drive....

Actually, that is not a good test.  There is another reason why the Amiga's
dir command seems so slow.

If my memory serves me correctly, the Amiga's dir command reads in a list of
all of the files in the directory, then sorts them, THEN it prints them out.
The MSDOS dir prints out what it gets to as it gets to it.

So the Amiga's dir command SEEMS much slower because it doesn't start printing
to the screen until it has seen ALL of the files in a directory.

Use the list command instead (I do).  It seems much faster than the dir
command in that, like the MSDOS dir command, it lists the files as it gets
to them, instead of after it has read and sorted them.

> Joe Porkka   porkka@frith.egr.msu.edu

Rodney Ricks
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