Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeCom and 4DOS descript.ion files

2005-05-25 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
David O'Shea wrote: ... What I'd suggest is you use a binary search tree (with the key being the filename of course); the trick being that you just use up all the RAM available to build the tree, and if you run out before you finish reading the descript.ion file, you remember the file

[Freedos-devel] Re: FreeCom and 4DOS descript.ion files

2005-05-24 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Jeremy, There should not be a noticable delay if you do not use them (one attempt to open per directory displayed), but may be for big directories as the file is sequentially searched for each filename displayed (as the file is unsorted and may or may not contain a description Im not sure