Mail Archives: djgpp/1992/10/19/07:44:37
G'day
Over the weekend I got hold of Eric Backus' ports of the FSF utilities
and loaded them on my 386sx pc. When comparing them to previous versions
of the same utilites ftp'd from SIMTEL:gnuish-msdos they all appeared
to be about 20% larger, but more importantly, took significantly longer
to run. A simple looping test using ms-sh200 proved Eric's "ls" to take
about 5 times as long. Closer inspection showed that there was frentic
disk activity BEFORE anything appeared on the screen - this occured with
other utilities as well, including ones which needn't access the disk at all.
Since these utils are .exe files, I presume that they aren't trying to run
my copy of go32. I have 2Meg of memory in the machine - perhaps this
is insufficient and the utils are paging? Would anyone like to comment on
this? Eric, perhaps?
Mark
m DOT robinson AT reading DOT ac DOT uk
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