Cached CD-Drive-Directories
Posted: 2004-04-07, 14:23 UTC
Hi there,
I'ld like to have support of the following feature in future TC-Version:
If I switch to a CD-Drive TC should recognize, that it is a readonly device. So why couldn't it be possible to read out the id of the inserted CD. Based on this CD-id TC should store the file- and directorycontent (just name, icon, date and so on - not the filedata) of each directory I'll enter. If I put in this CD later, TC just has to read the CD-id and can restore the whole content of previously visited directories. This is much faster and reduces CD-Access while installing software from CD and accessing other directories while installing. Of course there is the hidden Noreread setting in the wincmd.ini, but it doesn't do caching. Maybe you can build-up an automated extra-tool, that can be used to lookup the cached data (like "where is it"). Let's think about it.
I'ld like to have support of the following feature in future TC-Version:
If I switch to a CD-Drive TC should recognize, that it is a readonly device. So why couldn't it be possible to read out the id of the inserted CD. Based on this CD-id TC should store the file- and directorycontent (just name, icon, date and so on - not the filedata) of each directory I'll enter. If I put in this CD later, TC just has to read the CD-id and can restore the whole content of previously visited directories. This is much faster and reduces CD-Access while installing software from CD and accessing other directories while installing. Of course there is the hidden Noreread setting in the wincmd.ini, but it doesn't do caching. Maybe you can build-up an automated extra-tool, that can be used to lookup the cached data (like "where is it"). Let's think about it.