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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 05 May 1997 16:36:34 -0700
In-Reply-To: Derrell Lipman's message of Sun, 4 May 1997 18:22:32 -0400 (EDT)
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Derrell Lipman <derrell@vis-av.com> writes:

> Maybe efs (or dired) could give an indication in dired mode if a
> directory has asynchronously changed???

It could only do this by scanning the directory constantly to see when
it's changed.  Not a good plan for efs or nfs; not even a good plan for
local file system.  Dired does at least notice (unless you disable it)
when a directory has changed due to a file operation done by XEmacs
itself.

