> And DOS did it that way up until 6.0 or so -- delete wildcard was "get > everything that matches wildcard; apply delete to each thing in the > resulting list, one at a time". >
Maybe, but I don't think the cameras are using DOS. One system using a bad design doesn't mean they all do, 30 years on. > In-camera user-driven file operations are probably not where any > optimization from Pentax is going, on the one hand, and I'll > bet they'd > prefer to do things to minimize the possibility of data loss > over speed, > on the other, and on any leftover appendage, software has never seemed > like the Pentax strong point. > It's not an optimisation, it should be built into the design. Delete one file should be a special case of delete all files, rather than delete all being a loop around delete one; it's fairly basic stuff. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
