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- From: ejon@ll.mit.edu (Eric Jones)
- Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.012355.26665@ll.mit.edu>
- Sender: ejon@ll.mit.edu (Eric Jones)
- Reply-To: ejon@ll.mit.edu (Eric Jones)
- Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- References: <BzGn32.37C@dscomsa.desy.de> <1gt111INNt3b@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 01:23:55 GMT
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- In article <1gt111INNt3b@hpscit.sc.hp.com>, tim@computer.bri.hp.com (Tim Phipps) writes:
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- |> In a previous article Phil Hallam wrote:
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- |>: 6) File system limited to sequential file, forcing
- |>: applications to create their own file system on top of
- |>: the UNIX one, thus preventing any standardization or
- |>: application independent optimization.
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- |>(Snore) Try "man fseek".
- |>
- |>Phippo the Hippo.
- |>
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- But isn't that exactly his point? Sure you can write an ISAM file
- structure using fseek (and if you're REALLY smart, you might even
- write an efficient one), but then how's anyone else going to use
- your files?
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- Eric
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