scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) (10/19/88)
Speaking of zoo, I have a directory containing about 150 files totaling over 3 megabytes. I try to "zoo -a archive *". Zoo seems to take _forever_ to do its work. Even if a try to add a single file, zoo crunches and grinds and takes so long, that i think something's wrong. I tried an experiment and created 100 0-length files. I then did a "zoo a foobar file1", and once again- clunca-chunka-clanka goes my harddrive. Was a little quicker tho, causing me to believe that zoo is reading _every_ file. Has anyone else spotted this? --- Also, why the heck won't Lattice compile a file which contains no code or data!?? -scott
ricom@microsoft.UUCP (Rico Mariani) (10/20/88)
In article <826@applix.UUCP> scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes: > >Speaking of zoo, > >I have a directory containing about 150 files totaling over 3 megabytes. >I try to "zoo -a archive *". Zoo seems to take _forever_ to do its work. >Even if a try to add a single file, zoo crunches and grinds and takes so >long, that i think something's wrong. > >I tried an experiment and created 100 0-length files. I then did a >"zoo a foobar file1", and once again- clunca-chunka-clanka goes my >harddrive. Was a little quicker tho, causing me to believe that zoo >is reading _every_ file. > >Has anyone else spotted this? I bet you're using a shell... This is my problem with AmigaZoo It searches the whole directory for matching files FOR EVERY FILE ON THE COMMAND LINE. I've had directory's with 500 files in them and I want to archive 50 or so and it takes forever! It seems that it's tring to find matching file names for every name on the command line even if there are no wild card characters in the name. Give me a break! We all know that globbing is slow on the Amiga because of the file system structure, so the net result is that you wait. And wait. And wait. -Rico
mrr@amanpt1.zone1.com (Mark Rinfret) (10/22/88)
In article <1066@microsoft.UUCP>, ricom@microsoft.UUCP (Rico Mariani) writes: > In article <826@applix.UUCP> scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes: > > > >Speaking of zoo, > > > >I have a directory containing about 150 files totaling over 3 megabytes. > >I try to "zoo -a archive *". Zoo seems to take _forever_ to do its work. > >Even if a try to add a single file, zoo crunches and grinds and takes so > >long, that i think something's wrong. > > > >I tried an experiment and created 100 0-length files. I then did a > >"zoo a foobar file1", and once again- clunca-chunka-clanka goes my > >harddrive. Was a little quicker tho, causing me to believe that zoo > >is reading _every_ file. > > > >Has anyone else spotted this? > > I bet you're using a shell... This is my problem with AmigaZoo > > It searches the whole directory for matching files FOR EVERY FILE ON > THE COMMAND LINE. This is probably a result of using the Manx (Aztec C) scdir() function. Whenever I resort to using scdir(), I always include a test to determine if the pathname contains meta characters (*,?) and bypass the call to scdir() if it doesn't. Perhaps this should be passed on the Rahul Dhesi (sp?). Mark -- < Mark R. Rinfret, mrr@amanpt1.ZONE1.COM | ...rayssd!galaxia!amanpt1!mrr > < HyperView Systems Corp. Home: 401-846-7639 > < 28 Jacome Way Work: 401-849-9390 x301 > < Middletown, RI 02840 Hypermedia R Us! >