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Aucbvax.3265 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Tue Sep 22 17:51:06 1981 ls >From oku@UTEXAS-11 Tue Sep 22 17:07:14 1981 Ls is very slow as it comes from Bell for large systems. One of the first things that we did at OU, was to #ifdef in an interface to the getpw* and getgr* routines. This sped things up considerably as the passwd file at OU has just under 2600 lines in it. The get* routines that we use, utilize various forms of hashing to help things along.

Peter Staubach -------

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