Fast Smooth Dirs V1.3 © Chris Hames ----------------------------------- SIZE:1096 If you get sick of waiting for your floppies to get a directory whether it be the AmigaDOG List command, or the open file requestor in your favourite program, here is the program for you. It the patches File System for all your floppies so that when a program gets a directory it uses my code which should mean big speed increase! It also cuts down the grinding of the drive moving from track to track by reading them in a sorted(As much as possible) order. Just put FSDirs in your startup-sequence(you don't have to run it either!) and live with much more acceptable floppy directory reads. Your drives should benifit as well(They won't have to grind back and forth so much). Note: sometimes your drive motor won't turn off and you will loose 512bytes of memory, sorry, but this occurs when you stop getting a directory before a program gets all the directory. The motor should turn off next time you access the drive. This is a FreeWare program, it may be distributed in any manner as long as it is accompanied by this .doc file both unaltered but not for profit(unless you have my permission). I will gladly accept donations in any form for my work. Mail:- Chris Hames 6 Pamela Crt Blackburn South VIC 3130 Australia All use of this program is at your own risk, and no liability or responsibilty is assumed by me. TecInfo: FSDirs attaches itself to each Floppy File System packet processing code. Each ExNext goes to my code which reads in the blocks in the best possible order to keep disk reads and steps down to a minimun. Should not be used with Kickstart 2.0 or later... Credit: Bryce Nesbitt for the idea. History: 1.0 26 Sept 89 Steve got me sidetracked again. First release. 1.1 27 Sept 89 Bug fix - Now works with 1,3 or 4 floppies. Idiot! 1.2 29 Sept 89 Better sort method - Less disk grind. 1.3 24 Nov 89 The Best sort method and up to 2 times faster!