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- FAST SMOOTH DIRECTORY
- © 1990 Chris Hames
-
- If you get sick waiting for your floppies to produce a directory
- whether it be the AmigaDOG List command, or the open file requestor in
- your favourite program, here is the program for you. FSDir patches File
- System for all your floppies so that when a program produces a directory,
- my speedy code is used. Result: a big increase in directory displays.
- In addition, my code 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 FSDir in your startup-sequence (you don't have to run it
- either!) and live with much more acceptable floppy directory reads. Your
- drives should benifit 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 no-one's perfect. Besides, no adverse effects occur.
- The motor will turn off next time you access the drive.
-
- RUNNING FSDIR
- n Enter the CLI (click on the CLI icon in the FSDIR drawer).
- n At the prompt type: CD DF0:FDIR (return).
- n Then type: FDIR (return).
- n Try out the program by typing in DIR (return) and see the difference.
- n Return from the CLI by typing ENDCLI (return).
-
-
- HOW TO PLACE FSDIR IN THE STARTUP-SEQUENCE OF YOUR BOOT DISK
-
- Run a text processor of your choice. When requested to load a file,
- insert your boot disk and load in the STARTUP-SEQUENCE file. You'll find
- it in the S drawer.
-
- Somewhere before the LOADWB command enter the following:
- DF0:C/FSDIR
-
- For this to work you must copy FSDIR into your C directory. One way of
- doing this is to start up with your Workbench disk, enter the CLI and type
- the following:
-
- CD C:
- COPY COPY RAM:
- COPY CD RAM:
- (at this point remove your Workbench disk and insert the Cover Disk)
- CD DF0:FSDIR
- COPY FSDIR RAM:
- (at this point remove your Cover Disk and insert you boot disk)
- CD DF0:
- CD RAM:
- COPY FSDIR DF0:C
- (exit from the CLI, insert your boot disk in the drive and reset the Amiga)
-
-
- Chris Hames
- Pamela Crt
- Blackburn South
- VIC 3130
- Australia
-