Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-23 Thread Greg Woodhouse
You can create a DEVICE file entry with specific open parameters if need be. If you set recordsize=255 (or a larger value), will read reliably return that number of characters, or will it read as many characters as possible without blocking? I may have misunderstood Kevin's problem, but I

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-23 Thread Jim Self
Bhaskar wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:53 -0500, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: [KSB] ...snip... P.S. Kevin, did you ever get your IO working? I think that was what started the thread. No I didn't. But this thread got off track, so I started a new one. I can't get block reads to work

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-23 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I'm sure you know this, but unbuffered I/O can be painfully slow. The problem is that buffering can also cause problems for certain network protocols: imagine an MTA (message transfer agent) sending QUIT to terminate an SMTP session. If the TCP stack hadn't filled the advertised window, it

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-23 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 16:23 -0500, Jim Self wrote: [KSB] ...snip... I haven't worked with this level of code in quite awhile and I forget what differences in device parameters apply to different device types, such as for sockets and communication between processes, such as we use in CGI

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-23 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I didn't know that either! === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is foolish to answer a question that you do not understand. --G. Polya (How to Solve It) On Aug 23, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Second, I'm ticked off because I just found that OPEN^%ZISH has this

RE: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-22 Thread Ruben Safir
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 21:35 -0400, David Sommers wrote: Your initial comment was that you didn't want to use file sharing because it couldn't be easily tunneled over RPC. Not I I was just trying to throw out some useful ideas. I don't think rysnc requires SAMBA. Ruben

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-22 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
It was a helpful post. Thanks! Kevin On 8/22/05, Ruben Safir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 21:35 -0400, David Sommers wrote: Your initial comment was that you didn't want to use file sharing because it couldn't be easily tunneled over RPC. Not I I was just trying to

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-21 Thread Maury Pepper
- Original Message - From: Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 12:00 PM Subject: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions Maury, Thanks for your feedback. I agree that they byte-by-byte approach will have to be changed. I

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-21 Thread Ruben Safir
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 13:42 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Hmm... if I had an ftp server, I would want to be sure that only those authorized to request a file were sent the file. Perhaps I need to look more into the secure FTP options rsync through ssh or FreeSWan...

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-21 Thread Ruben Safir
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 14:19 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Thanks Ruben, Are any of these options something that could be put into a $Windoze client so that it could securely request images from server, or would it involve setting up an environment for the client to run int? I'm not sure.

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-21 Thread Ruben Safir
FreeSWan is just a VPN standard implementation. Ruben On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 14:19 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Thanks Ruben, Are any of these options something that could be put into a $Windoze client so that it could securely request images from server, or would it involve setting up

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-21 Thread Chris Richardson
Kevin; The point I was making was that there are things that MUMPS does really well and there are things that it does not perform well at. In such cases, one needs to use other tools. The endian issue is one of underlying operating system and hardware architecture. This is an area that

RE: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-21 Thread David Sommers
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruben Safir Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 2:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 14:19 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Thanks Ruben, Are any

RE: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-21 Thread Ruben Safir
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 18:50 -0400, David Sommers wrote: Rsync is a tool used to synchronize or replicate files. In terms of sending a single file from server to client upon request, a tool is not recommended but a protocol. Whether it be Secure FTP, BitTorrent, SMB, or the like. This is

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-21 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
I am already using rsync to upload my backup data to our Windows server, and include VistA data with our financial data backup. But I still don't see how I would incorporate that into an image viewer that needs to request a specific file from a server. Kevin On 8/21/05, Ruben Safir [EMAIL

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-21 Thread Ruben Safir
That I can't answer. No pipe? No File Pipe? Ruben On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 19:20 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: I am already using rsync to upload my backup data to our Windows server, and include VistA data with our financial data backup. But I still don't see how I would incorporate that

RE: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions

2005-08-21 Thread David Sommers
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: more M read questions I am already using rsync to upload my backup data to our Windows server, and include VistA data with our financial data backup. But I still don't see how I would incorporate that into an image viewer that needs to request