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From: John Boyne <john AT nuldev DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Many small files versus big clusters
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 21:00:32 GMT
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In article <DGC9r4 DOT AMq AT jade DOT mv DOT net>
           dgardner AT mcsilo DOT ilo DOT dec DOT com "Damien Gardner" writes:

[Snip]

While I agree that the cluster overhang on large partitions is a
problem, I don't think the 'One Big File' solution is the answer.

First, you don't need the library source unless you intend to modify
the library, and therefore most of us can keep the source in some
archive format (I use gzip). This eliminates the problem most of the
time for most people, and all of the time for those who never need
to look at the lib source.

Secondly, as has been said, compile times are _much_ higher when
you have to compile the entire library rather that one small file,
or even a handful of small files.

I know this has all been said several times,  but it's my 0.02.


> 
> Oh, yeah ... the DOS JOIN command would be just what you're looking for.
> I used to use it to join my RAMDRIVE on D: to look like it was C:\TEMP
> and if I didn't load the ramdrive, C:\TEMP was still available but was
> my harddrive.  UNFORTUNATELY I don't think that this program comes
> with DOS 6.22 (and I haven't used it since DOS 5.0).  If anybody knows
> if this program has changed name or if there is an alternative I'd be
> interested to hear from you.

JOIN, SUBST and a few other things are in a supplementary ZIP file
available in few places. Try an archie search for SUP622.EXE (self
extracting ZIP) or look in the index on gowinnt.microsoft.com it's
somewhere in the SoftLib directory I think. Or maybe the Peropsys
dir. I can't remember.

> What is 0.02 of an ECU called anyway?

ECUette? Or maybe it's 2 Yecch!

  John

-- 
John Boyne