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Date: | Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:22:20 +0200 |
From: | "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org> |
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Subject: | Re: latest ls.exe version in XP problem |
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> From: "one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com" <one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com> > Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:39:53 GMT > > I run the command in an old computer. How old? if it's slow, what is its CPU clock speed? And how many files are in that directory, anyway? > > are there lots of large subdirectories or files > > with unusual file-name extensions? > > The file name extensions are normal. Can you give examples of those ``normal extensions''? > But why subdirecries matter here? I don't have option "-R" ls.exe needs to read the subdirectories to compute their size (DOS system calls always return zero for a size of a directory). > I just noticed if using "dir", the displayed director or files will show > the first page and pause for a second, then display the seoncd page. > This way, it displayes thousands of files. `dir' doesn't tell you all the information that `ls' does.
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