Hello Bill!
 BE> 04 Feb 98 07:31, Harry wrote to Rich Wonneberger:
 H> Hallo Rich
 RW>> *** Quoting Ken Peters to Lona Carter dated 01-25-98 ***
 >> I be honest with you Loner, I did run Adapt but gave it away as a
 >> bad joke I have 48035 files on my system  and adapt builds a 24 meg
 >> index file and is ver slow compared to Maximus
 BE>    Lets define small.  My system which has 16,350 files 
 BE> generates the following indexes.  While it is slower 
 BE> than Max/2, it's by no means too slow.  And I dont 
 BE> consider 16,000 files that small.
 BE>  543752 File.Area.Dated.Index
 BE>  813064 File.Area.Name.Index
 BE> 1643300 File.Data
 BE>  931474 File.Descriptions
 BE>  492552 File.Name.Index
 BE>   79124 File.Paths
Like I said I have over 48000 files on the system
to do a file search it takes ages 
Adapt is 100% slowwer than Maximus
If they could make the search engine the same as Maximus 
it would be a fine system
The data and index files are over 25 megs
Harry
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