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- 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
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