Hi, On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Zbigniew <zbigniew2...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/3/15, Jack <gykazequ...@earthlink.net>: > >> Maybe not: I still use a 1986 "WordStar" editor, the only one I ever >> had "time to learn" well. It is VERY slow at the end of an edit, my >> guess being that only THEN does it "rename" my previous file with the >> .BAK suffix, then finishes output of my NEW file, then it deletes all >> its "temporary" files! Perhaps your editor does a LOT of such work, >> whenever you finally "output" a new edited file. > > I noticed that pauses while using "edit" shipped with FreeDOS - can it > really be that slow when saving edited file?
How big is the file? (Last I checked, FD EDIT only supported 64 kb files.) It's a 16-bit real mode editor compiled by a wimpy compiler, what'd you expect? ;-) So no, it's not fast, but it shouldn't take long. What file system? I think FAT32 is slightly slower. And of course fragmentation hurts (so defrag!). Of course, it could be a hardware (faulty disk) or driver issue, but first try a different editor (e.g. VILE, FTE). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
