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about to fix the "final" doslfn bug (Announce)

posted by tom Homepage, Germany (West), 10.04.2022, 22:08

> > When doing manually a DIR with output to display, it seemed very quick
> (for
> > ~ 16 or so items). However, doing output to > NUL was painfully slow for
> > both doslfn programs (for the same ~ 16 items).
>
> This is a problem with DIR itself: it does an SFN find, then converts the
> short to long, so DOSLFN has to find it again.

Nope. As I am the author of the LFN directory listing: directory listings with and without LFN were 'just fast enough', and I had never a reason to care about the difference. It might be 2x or 3x slower, but nothing relevant.

something strange is going on on his machine.

 

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