Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > I've done a prototype which was much faster but somehow the > people in charge are determined to pile a ton of mechanisms > on top of this such as "doors as files". Too many mechanism, > a daemon running to create the file on the fly, etc. I think > it can be solved with a low-tech solution which retains the > contents file.
Thanks for this insight. Throwing out the idea of a DB was mostly an example of whether we were looking at the right question. However, this still doesn't answer the question of whether the file needs to be sorted. Why is the file sorted? -spp -- Stephen Potter <spp at unixsa.net> <http://www.lopsa.org> Director, LOPSA Executive Board "I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, two useless men are a law firm, and three are a congress." - John Adams
