> From: Israel, John R. > I need to copy PDFs from a Windows server into a UNIX dir (where > UniData lives). Can I map a VOC pointer? Other thoughts? > Running HPUX, UniData 7.2.1.
I'm not as familiar with internals in UV/UD as with other platforms so this may not apply - and I'm eager to understand exactly how these systems Do work in this regard... If you create a Voc pointer and use Copy, I believe the DBMS would pull data through the virtual machine, drawing it into the DBMS from the source, applying EOL/AM conversions, then writing it back out to the target with similar character translation. That can be hugely painful. On other platforms that have a virtual machine environment (blob), overflow frames, etc, that would also mean pulling lots of frames from overflow and then just releasing them. Again, a major performance issue at the time of operation, and a source of rapid overflow fragmentation if done too often. I agree with the suggestions by others to use FTP, etc, and for the reason stated here I would strongly discourage using DBMS verbs for OS-level file transfers. Now, can someone familiar with UV and UD internals confirm or correct that? Thanks. T _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
