Thanks to John for adding writing to disk to Dani's test set. You make some good points about documents in the modern world. You can probably append to a document all day long and never see any change in speed. Years ago, the legend was that you didn't have to buffer before calling *SEND PACKET* because 4D was doing it already. Meaning also that you had to close/open the document it you were writing a log to track down crashes. No idea if this is true now.
And, yeah, then you can *DOCUMENT TO TEXT* in one go, it that's what you're after. But, and I don't know if this is just me or not, but I hate writing scratch files. Just...don't like it. I can't back that up with any good reasons, I just have a bit of an allergy to the file system. Permissions issues, etc. Maybe I should rethink that. Another nice feature of files is that you can use them in so many ways...they can then be read by another program for dispatch, etc. So, hmm. ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
