To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
X-Comment-To:	Matthias Paul <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
References:	<19DFCAE49C5 AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Message-Id:	<ACCyy4syP5@belous.munic.msk.su>
From:	"Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
Date:	Thu, 1 Oct 1998 22:50:52 +0400 (MSD)
Organization:	Locus
Reply-To:	ark AT mos DOT ru
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Subject:	Re: Suggestions for DR-DOS
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X-Comment-To: Matthias Paul

Hi!

1-οΛΤ-98 13:56 PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Matthias Paul) wrote to opendos AT delorie DOT com:
MP> On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 Arkady V.Belousov asked:

 >> MP> In other words: Under DR-DOS a setting of FASTOPEN=512 consumes
 >> MP> 0.5 Kb for up to 256 files,
 >>      How???
MP> Because it uses a hash-table.

     And? Two bytes can be used only for cluster number and no more info...

 >>      fastopen under MS-DOS caches only directories names. And why 48 byte,
 >> when path can be up to 64 byte?
MP> No idea, but that s what their documentation states. I don t know how
MP> they implemented it...

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