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- Path: bath.ac.uk!bspwrb
- From: bspwrb@bath.ac.uk (W R BENNETT)
- Subject: Re: Wanted: Small and fast FindTool
- Organization: School of Biological Sciences, University of Bath, UK
- Message-ID: <DMIp0L.86o.B.mary@bath.ac.uk>
- References: <68771426@0humpty.tomate.tng.oche.de>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 16:41:10 GMT
-
- In the referenced article, humpty@TOMATE.TNG.OCHE.DE (Andreas Mixich) writes:
- >
- > Hi,
- >
- >I am using Find (the one which needs "FindDB:") but the problem with it is,
- >that after having scaned my hd I have gotten a datafile of more than 700
- >kilo. Additionally I packed it. Now Find needs more then 1 meg free chunk
- >to use the datafile. Unpacking it before is no win either. Is there any
- >similare tool, that
- >
- >a) does not need the assign
- >b) does not need to read in the whole database at once ?
- >c) is CLI based
- >
- >I said, even using an unpacked datafile seems to need that large free
- >memory chunk.
- >
- There's a program in a package called QuickTools which does the same
- job. It does need an assign, but it builds a separate file for each
- partition, so this will probably reduce the size of your datafiles to a
- manageable level. The search tool is CLI-based, fast and searches all
- the datafiles sequentially. If QuickTools isn't on Aminet, it may have
- come from a Fish disk - I can search and find out if required.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Bill Bennett
- W.R.BENNETT@bath.ac.uk
-
-