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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
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Subject: Re: New ANTIVIRAL SOFTWARE
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Date: 22 Sep 88 13:27:55 GMT
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In article <933@psuhcx.psu.edu>, matt@psuhcx (Matt Cohen) writes:
}not be run.  If no programs change and no new programs are run, 
}operation of the shell is transparent aside from a slight delay
}in loading of programs due to the checking. The delay is
}approximately 1 second for an average program (17.5 Kilobytes). 

An average program is 17.5K?!?  Are you still using CP/M?  This "slight"
delay translates to 10 seconds for the more typical 175K program!
(about the only programs I have that are less than 20K are small utilities
that typically take only a second or so to run, anyway)

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