Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 13:56:48 +0100
From: Matthias Paul <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject: Re: Suggestions for DR-DOS
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
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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???

Because it uses a hash-table.

>      fastopen under MS-DOS caches only directories names. And why 48 byte,
> when path can be up to 64 byte?

No idea, but that s what their documentation states. I don t know how
they implemented it...

 Matthias
 

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