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Slow opening of DOS drives



Hi Folks,

Executor 1.99p (and even previous versions) has some code for
processing Long FileNames (LFN) under Windows '95.  The code doesn't
yet work but it might be the cause of slowing down accesses of DOS
disk drives, at least on some systems.  We're trying to figure out
what the common denominator is but so far we have had no luck.  We
will soon add a command line switch that will allow you to avoid the
LFN code but we're still trying to find out exactly what the problem
is.

Here are the reported cases of slow volume access (DOS 7 means booting
Windows '95 back into DOS mode):

			Windows '95	DOS 7		DOS 6
	Name		Slowdown?	Slowdown?	Slowdown?

	Mark Skinner	yes		yes		yes
	Aaron O'Neal	yes		yes		unknown
	Josh Vanas	yes		no		not tested
	Andrew Smith	yes		unknown		unknown
	Seth Crews	yes		unknown		unknown
	Jerry Foglesong	yes/no*		unknown		unknown
	__________________
	*I have a 486 running Win'95.  I installed the bleeding edge
	1.99p2.  Whenever I tried to access my Dos drives, I would
	have to wait about 5 minutes for it to scan the drive and
	create a window. Later, when I dropped my modem connection,
	(which had been running a PPP connection for me) Executor
	accessed the drives fairly quickly.

Now Jerry's report is by far the weirdist.  If anyone has any idea how
the PPP connection would affect things, please let me know.  I'm
assuming that people are not talking about Executor as it comes up,
but are talking about when the Browser has alread come up and they go
to click on one of their DOS drives.  Please correct me if I'm
mistaken.

Josh appears to be the only person who has this problem when Windows
'95 is running but not when he reboots into DOS mode.

If there is anyone else who is seeing this slowdown, please send me
e-mail (no need to send it to the entire list) and let me know if you
get it when you restart Windows '95 in DOS mode.  If you have DOS 6 on
the same machine, let me know if it happens there, as well.

Mark, Aaron, Josh, Andrew and Seth, are you running PPP connections or
any networking software when you are having this slowdown?  I do not
have any idea how they could be related but it's worth us asking.

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com