Re: HardPressed

[neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)]

In article <abVm03RGd4Sg00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:
>In article <1993Jun18.134307.18503@vpnet.chi.il.us> vagrant@vpnet.chi.il.us (Guy Umbright) writes:
>>So far I am pleased with it.  Sure, it would be great if it were faster
>>but I dont find the waits too bad.
>
>It ain't gonna get much faster. :-(
>
   I got HP this week and it's great. I haven't hit any incompatibilities
and it's remarkably transparent to the user. One thing, though, which I
find a bit annoying, is the time it takes for applications to collect, I
presume, catalog listings of subdirectories. The Finder takes a while to
open a window which contains many compressed files, and starting up
GNO/ME takes at least twenty seconds where before it took three,
apparently because of all the executables it's looking for in the PATH,
most of which are compressed with HP.
   Here's a suggestion for some later time, Andy. Would it be possible,
or wise, to have HP produce some small auxiliary file on user request
(another Finder extra command) which is hidden from the Finder and
contains the complete catalog information for that subdirectory? This
file would be checked against the modification time of the parent
directory and rebuilt if necessary, but for static or slowly changing
directories it might speed things up.

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