Program inefficiency?

[Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: stdazi
> On Sep 29, 6:07 pm, Michael.Coll-Ba... at VerizonWireless.com wrote:
> 
> > You did not mention the OS, but because you are using
> > "pathname\editfile.txt", it sounds like you are using an MS OS.
From
> > past experience with various MS OSes, I found that as the number of
> > files in a directory increases the slower your process runs for each
> > file.  
> 
> how so?
> 

I said "sounds like", which means I was guessing.  In *nix ( the ones I
know ), it would have been "pathname/editfile.txt".  But, it was the
file extension that caught my eye.  I had a project a while back that
required a mass conversion of jpeg files and ran into what sounded like
a similar problem.  


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