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From: burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disk OrGanizer
Keywords: DOG Hard disk Optimizer
Message-ID: <786@parcvax.Xerox.COM>
Date: 10 Dec 87 02:55:39 GMT
References: <4669@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: burton@parcvax.xerox.com.UUCP (Philip M. Burton)
Organization: Xerox PARC
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In article <4669@well.UUCP> gam3@well.UUCP (G. Allen Morris III) writes:
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>I am about to release Disk OrGanizer version 2.02 and would like some
>feed back on likes and dislikes of version 1.01a.

I use DOG a lot and think it's great.  One mode that I would like to see
is a "directory-only" compression, moving all directories and contained
subdirectories to continguous sectors on the outer tracks.  (Speeds up directory
searches with large paths.)

Another change is a mode that would automatically pack all the files in a
directory,  without having the name them in an ORDER.DOG file. This 
operation should be applicable to selected directories.

Another option would allow me to specify a directory size greater than the 
default, for those situations where I know in advance that I will have lots of files.

This would avoid directory fragmentation.


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