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#Smart Ctrl-A-A

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    21-May-87 01:35:00
Sb: #Smart Ctrl-A-A
Fm: Charlie Heath 74216,2117
To: John Draper 76703,4322

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What's needed is a WBench that lets you do other things while the directory is being read, like my filename requester. Sigh. Anyhow, within a few months there will be caching soloutions to the directory speed problems – the problem now is that "addbuffers" works at a sector level, and doesn't know a sector is in memory that has directory info in the trackdisk buffer. So it does a seek, reads another sector, does a seek back to the same track again… Anyhow, a bit of code on top of trackdisk.device will solve all woes for anybody with enough ram to keep a few tracks in memory.