Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 16:30:19 +1200
From: physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison)
Subject: Updates (was Re: ClosedDOS???
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Cc: caldera-opendos AT rim DOT caldera DOT com
Message-id: <199709100430.QAA07098@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
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Paul Brannan wrote...

>  I'm actually working on an improved lfn 
> driver.  My plans for it are: optional case sensitivity, 386 
> instructions (but still real mode only? xms?), better short/long name 
> handling, path caching (longname.exe is SLOW, about 3 tree scans per 
> operation for most functions), and anything else I think of.

Can somebody tell me why it is so slow, even with NWCACHE caching the
diskette drive?

Is the longname source open?

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