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- Fast Smooth Dirs V1.3 © Chris Hames
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- If you get sick of waiting for your floppies to get a directory
- whether it be the AmigaDOG List command, or the open file requestor in
- your favourite program, here is the program for you. It the patches File
- System for all your floppies so that when a program gets a directory
- it uses my code which should mean a big speed increase! It also cuts down
- the grinding of the drive moving from track to track by reading them
- in a sorted (As much as possible) order.
- Just put FSDirs in your startup-sequence (you don't have to run it
- either!) and live with much more acceptable floppy directory reads. Your
- drives should benefit as well (They won't have to grind back and forth so
- much). Note: sometimes your drive motor won't turn off and you will
- loose 512bytes of memory, sorry, but this occurs when you stop getting a
- directory before a program gets all the directory. The motor should turn
- off next time you access the drive.
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- This is a FreeWare program, it may be distributed in any manner as
- long as it is accompanied by this .doc file both unaltered but not for
- profit (unless you have my permission). I will gladly accept donations
- in any form for my work. Any Software company want 18 year old
- C/Assembler programmer who is currently getting bored out of his mind in
- first year Computer Science at Monash Uni ?
- Mail:- Chris Hames
- 6 Pamela Crt
- Blackburn South
- VIC 3130
- Australia
- All use of this program is at your own risk, and no liability or
- responsibilty is assumed by me.
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- TecInfo:
- FSDirs attaches itself to each Floppy File System packet processing
- code. Each ExNext goes to my code which reads in the blocks in the best
- possible order to keep disk reads and steps down to a minimun.
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- Credit:
- Bryce Nesbitt for the idea.
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- History:
- 1.0 26 Sept 89 Steve got me sidetracked again. First release.
- 1.1 27 Sept 89 Bug fix - Now works with 1,3 or 4 floppies. Idiot!
- 1.2 29 Sept 89 Better sort method - Less disk grind.
- 1.3 24 Nov 89 The Best sort method and up to 2 times faster!
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