| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
I was noticing that in some of my older amiga software, a number of
subdirectories have a file called .fastdir and was wondering if
anyone could tell me anything about what it does, how it works?
I assume from its name it's probabley used to speed up directory
access in some fashion but I've never been able to find it documented
anywhere and was curious as to its function.
Thanks
Frank
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 4839.1 | delete em' | CGOWGS::DREW | Steve Drew | Mon Jun 24 1991 01:47 | 15 |
.fastdir, are files left around by a diskmaster type utility called
CLIMate. It simply contains a list of the files within that directory.
This was usefull for floppy drives as CLIMate would check the date of
the .fastdir file vs the modification date on the directory and if no
changes had occured it would use the .fastdir file to obtain the directory
listing and save lots of time.
But any .fastdir files laying around now, can just be deleted.
Steve.
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| 4839.2 | ex | HPSCAD::GATULIS | Frank Gatulis 297-6770 | Mon Jun 24 1991 01:49 | 7 |
Steve,
Thanks, that's good information.
Frank
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| 4839.3 | kill 'em! kill 'em! | FORTY2::CADWALLADER | Tue Jul 09 1991 14:53 | 12 | |
With reference to .fastdir files... you can get a small util called KILL.FASTDIR which can searce your floppies and delete all of these files if you need to reclaim some disk-space; however these files are usually pretty small. Incidentally, the newest version of CLImate has a button at the top of the display so you may disable the .fastdir function if you don't like it (I think version 1.21). - JIM CAD* | |||||