hiatus, eh?

[Stephen Hart]

Hi Tony,

In a msg of <03 Jul 05>, ***@hotmail.Com wrote:

S> i'll probably never know...there's about fifteen hundred movies i'd
S> prefer to see before that one...

What movies are you looking forward to watching?

Oh, I talked to a couple Star Wars fans and they thought the final
movie compared well with the original movie.

the gateway package, but my Binkley Protocol "FidoNet via Internet"
mailer objected to my upgrading from Win98 to Win2000

S> i use binkp for win2k. seems to work ok here...

I think this was quirk of this particular mailer, tho the Win98
settings "should" have worked for Win2k. Meanwhile, I know of at
least one sysop using Irex under Win2k, but he is using the final
Win2k service pack and I am not...

The one nice thing about Irex, for me, is that it has a menu-driven
config program like FrontDoor and InterMail have. I never liked
wading through badly documented config files like what BinkleyTerm
featured. ...On the other hand, I was quite happy using the clearly
"commented" configuration files for the Maximus BBS.

Some of the apps I run under Linux, like the SLRN UseNet newsreader,
already have Windows ports but they have problems because of Windows'
limitations.

S> i also use slrn for windows...i compiled it myself, but there is a
S> binary version available...i've used both and for the most part they
S> behaved the same under windows as they did linux...

The problem is when you're reading a few high volume newsgroup, and
only want to expire messages every few weeks. So, we are talking about
expiring (deleting) maybe 20,000 messages files from each directory.
Linux can expire each directory in a second or so, while Windows using
FAT partitions may take five or ten minutes for each directory. My
impression is that this is related to the FAT partition format versus
the various Linux partition formats. ...Linux also handles this
better than OS/2 did.

Are you using FAT partitions?



TTYL, ...Steve

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ACK and you shall receive.

[Xocyll]

***@f127.n249.z1.fidonet.org (Stephen Hart) looked up from
reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good,
the signs say:
<snip>

Post by Stephen Hart
The problem is when you're reading a few high volume newsgroup, and
only want to expire messages every few weeks. So, we are talking about
expiring (deleting) maybe 20,000 messages files from each directory.
Linux can expire each directory in a second or so, while Windows using
FAT partitions may take five or ten minutes for each directory. My
impression is that this is related to the FAT partition format versus
the various Linux partition formats. ...Linux also handles this
better than OS/2 did.

No it wouldn't be due to FAT, since the same directory could be deleted
under DOS in seconds. It's purely windows cruft, extraneous animations
and it's optional moving of things to recycle.

I sometimes wonder if windows is actually copying the files to the
recycle bin anyway (I have it set to just delete them) and then deleting
both copies. I can't really guess as to why it takes so long to delete
large files (hundreds of megs) otherwise.

Xocyll

[tony summerfelt]

Post by Stephen Hart
What movies are you looking forward to watching?

i just picked up 'sin city' and 'team america: world police' on dvd. but
i've got close to a dozen on dvd i haven't seen yet.

i have several movies taped from scream, action, and drive-in i haven't
seen yet...

some of the movies coming up on the movie network: 'the grudge' and other
new ones...

all before any star wars movie...

Post by Stephen Hart
The problem is when you're reading a few high volume newsgroup,

i am, but i no longer spool them. i've only ever spooled them on linux, not
windows (that i recall)

Post by Stephen Hart
Are you using FAT partitions?

not any longer...