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From: robtu@itx.isc.com (Rob Tulloh)
Subject: zoo? why does it grind the disk?
Message-ID: <robtu.670882506@mexia>
Summary: zoo a <files> is unusually slow
Keywords: zoo
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Organization: Interactive Systems Corp.
Date:  5 Apr 91 20:15:06 GMT


I have noticed that using zoo with files on the command line causes
it to grind the disk drive several minutes before it really gets down
to adding files. However, if I pipe the files to zoo, it adds them
right away. What gives?

	# fire up zoo from any shell...
	zoo a foo.zoo foo1 foo2 foo3 foo4	# grind, grind, grind, ...

	# using sksh find and pipes...
	find . -name 'foo*' -print | zoo aI foo.zoo 	# quick!

I don't know why zoo would need to thrash the disk to add files.
Can anyone offer an explanation?

Rob Tulloh
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