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Date:	Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:38:25 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: HPFS Defragmenter?

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In <382C6DDAFF318A43AE7DB2E3213F649715E0@server-pc.prismsound.com>, on
09/16/03
at 09:24 AM, "Peter Hooper" said:

>Problem is that I still have the same problem I thought it would fix.
>Which is that it takes the best part of a minute to do a "DIR *.LST>NUL"
>where there are 44,000 ".LST" files!

That sounds about right unless you have a very fast SCSI drive and fast
hardware.

>If anyone has any ideas on how to optimise (I've played with the cache
>size - only goes upto 2Mb :( ( Its a 200MHz Pentium with 64 Mb RAM)

That's the max for HPFS. IAC, a larger cache would not make dir any
faster the first time it was run.

>Any suggestions greatly appreciated! Even if its just to say that's how
>long it takes for that many files. Thanks,

:-)

Steven

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