Slow draw of file list...

[Mike Schwartz]

     (Top posted) You're welcome.  I know it must be tough with your vision
limitations.  You could probably have somebody like Karen look at it for you
and never pick up an error like this.

     If that wouldn't have helped, my next suggestion would have been to set
PFIGN=AB, so that filePro is forced to ignore looking at your "A" and "B"
floppy drives.

Mike Schwartz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Esak [mailto:john at valar.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:02 PM
> To: mschw at athenet.net
> Cc: Filepro-List at Lists. Celestial. Com
> Subject: RE: Slow draw of file list...
> 
> 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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