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> From: "one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com" <one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com>
> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:39:53 GMT
> 
> I run the command in an old computer.

How old? if it's slow, what is its CPU clock speed?  And how many
files are in that directory, anyway?

>  > are there lots of large subdirectories or files
> > with unusual file-name extensions?  
> 
> The file name extensions are normal.

Can you give examples of those ``normal extensions''?

> But why subdirecries matter here?  I don't have option "-R"

ls.exe needs to read the subdirectories to compute their size (DOS
system calls always return zero for a size of a directory).

> I just noticed if using "dir", the displayed director or files will show 
> the first page and pause for a second, then display the seoncd page. 
> This way, it displayes thousands of files.

`dir' doesn't tell you all the information that `ls' does.

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