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From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 1998 22:50:52 +0400 (MSD)
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Subject: Re: Suggestions for DR-DOS
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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...