To: OPENDOS AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] OS advancements and old technology: My viewpoint. References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.101) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Richard Hoskins Date: 10 Feb 1997 13:58:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: mharris@blackwidow.saultc.on.ca's message of Mon, 10 Feb 1997 06:56:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Lines: 24 Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca writes: > ls writes to the screen amazingly fast in Linux. Although I > don't have the sources handy, I'd bet that it does use direct > screen writes.. Just for the record, GNU/Linux systems usually use the `ls' from the FSF's file utilities package. ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/fileutils-3.16.tar.gz These almost assuredly don't write to a screen, but use the systems termio. Writing to the screen would be a very un-Un*xish thing to do. For one thing, ls would have to be run suid root. If you still don't think that DIR's slowness is due to DOS's horrible term IO (which should be fixed no matter how this particular argument is resolved), just compile the file utilities on a Win32 system and try `ls'. -- Do you think the ``Monkees'' should get gas on odd or even days?