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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sun, 29 Jan 1995 10:33:35 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 17:10:49 GMT
From: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Message-Id: <1995Jan29.171049.4191@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: University of Chicago
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <D2x5tu.89@on.bell.ca>, <3gb5du$r2g@news.halcyon.com>
Reply-To: goer@midway.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: Icon V9, under OpenVMS/VAX and Indexed RMS files
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
mengarini@delphi.com writes:
>
>You probably already have fast query programs for your postal database,
>including ones that let you make queries from the shell prompt.
>If I were doing this under MS-DOS, I'd use system() to call such a
>query program, rather than coding my own function. I'd have it write
>the query result to a RAMDisk, & I'd have the executable code of the
>query program on a RAM-cached disk.
But this assumes a user has enough memory free for a RAM "disk," and
that he or she has set one up. Unless the code is for you alone, and
you only expect it to run under DOS, this approach may be more trouble
than it's worth. But this is just my feeling....
--
Richard L. Goerwitz *** goer@midway.uchicago.edu