Amiga Unix?
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Jack, From what I understand, the reason a DIR takes so $#%$ long is that
Commodore elected to allow "infinite" directory size by linking the directory
entries throughout the disk. I think they wanted to avoid the problem Mac
owners have had with a limited directory size. This way, you can have as
many files as space permits. Can you imagine how long it must take to get a
directory on a full 20M hard disk! I think they should have let you set aside
a directory block of a size you need, rather than take the radical approach
they did. It doesn't bother me as much as it once did, though. – brent