Slow draw of file list...

[John Esak]

Wow Mike!  Good call.... I changed the PFFFFFDSK=C to PFDSK=C and BAN!
things started going at the speed of light again as they should.... This is
funny, because I was under the impression that on 5.6 PFDSK would not impact
things if it were gone and PFDATA pointed to your stuff.  Ken mentioned to
me that PFDSK was changed in 5.6 to allow pathnames as it does under Unix...
this to allow I suppose for the UNC convention fo finding things that will
eventually drive out drive letters. :-)

Anyway, he said he would check on his system... but I am curious now... All
you have to do is take away PFDSK on a 5.6 system and watch the phenomenon I
show in the movie happen. PUt it bak and BANG! the speed is right back
again.  Seeing as how there is not supposed to be any searching of A: B:
etc., as in days of old... I don't get it... but maybe he can shed some
light later on.  All I know is, coming from a Unix background, I have never
used PFDSK... but under Windows, I see it is really helpful. :-)

Thanks, good ccatch....

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Schwartz [mailto:mschw at athenet.net]
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 9:36 PM
> To: john at valar.com; 'Filepro-List at Lists. Celestial. Com'
> Subject: RE: Slow draw of file list...
>
>
> Top Posted for John:
>
>     On that slow system, in your DOS batch file, I think you have too many
> F's in the PFDSK command (unless it's an artifact of the video).  I think
> the delay is coming because the computer is trying to examine your floppy
> disk drives.  Do you see your floppy disk lights coming on?
>
> Mike Schwartz
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces+mschw=athenet.net at lists.celestial.com
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+mschw=athenet.net at lists.celestial.com] On
> > Behalf Of John Esak
> > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 10:44 PM
> > To: Filepro-List at Lists. Celestial. Com
> > Subject: Slow draw of file list...
> >
> > Hi Ken and anone else who might have ideas about this...
> >
> > Well, I made a little movie to show you the problem I'm
> having... I *know*
> > it's not filePro... because when I go to another machine here
> with exactly
> > the same filePro version and files... it comes up instantly
> with no delay
> > just like it should. The problem is only on one machine...
> >
> > But even though it's not filePro, I thought you might be able
> to give some
> > ideas. Jim and I went over the Window properties.. and ours are
> configured
> > exactly alike... his works normally, mine does the thing you'll
> see in the
> > movie.
> >
> > Thanks ahead of time... I don't really think this is easy and will be
> > solved... but I want to start somewhere.
> >
> > John
> >
> > The movie is at
> >
> > http://www.valar.com/slowdraw.wmv
> >
> > This machien is a superfast CPU, SATA RAID, lots of memory... etc.
> >
> > (3.73Ghz CPU, 300 SATA, 2GB of memory...)
> >
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