Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!pyrltd!datcon!sar From: sar@datcon.UUCP (Simon A Reap) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Unmovable Spaces under Norton Summary: Don't delete labels Message-ID: <25@datcon.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 15:20:06 GMT References: <2306@phred.UUCP> <1385@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> <690@auvax.UUCP> <3615@cadnetix.COM> <15518@santra.UUCP> Reply-To: sar@datcon.co.uk (Simon A Reap) Organization: Data Connection Limited, Enfield, Middlesex, UK Lines: 17 (ancient discussion, I know, but I didn't know our News was broken until today) In article <15518@santra.UUCP> t32726k@kaira.UUCP (Timo Kiravuo) writes: >In article <3615@cadnetix.COM> rusty@cadnetix.COM (Rusty) writes: >>>etc etc etc.... >one hidden file each. You can delete the hidden file by removing the >volume name (but now that you know what it is, maybe you do not want >to erase it after all). > I'd suggest not deleting the volume label. Every time you do a directory listing, DOS searches for the label and displays it at the top of the listing. If you do not have a label, DOS has to search your entire directory to discover this, slowing DIR down considerably (and we don't want to make DOS any slower than we have to, do we, playmates :-) -- Enjoy, yerluvinunclesimon Opinions are mine - I don't even have a cat Reach me at sar@datcon.co.uk, or ...!mcvax!ukc!pyrltd!datcon!sar