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to: Holger Granholm
from: Eddy Thilleman
date: 1999-11-26 12:38:27
subject: Bunch of Questions....

Hello Holger,

24 Nov 99 10:57, Holger Granholm wrote to Dave Davidson:

DD>> (3) Is there an OS/2 command similar to DOS's DELTREE.EXE? When

HG> I hope not. It's the slowest program I've ever used for that purpose.

Was that on a FAT partition with hundreds files in one or more directories
under plain DOS booted (=not under OS/2) without a disk cache ?  The cause of
that lies in the FAT file system.

HG> Doing it manually or from a file manager is ten times faster.

On HPFS partitions its lots faster than on FAT partitions when it comes to
hundreds (or more) files.

FC/2 can copy, move or delete whole directory trees very easy and fast. :)

  Greetings   -=Eddy=-        email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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