(sorta)OT: Apache / CGI / fP / printing

[Bob Stockler]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:03:44PM -0400, Ken Brody wrote:
| Fairlight wrote:
| > 
| > Simon--er, no...it was Walter Vaughan--said:
| > >
| > > Great googly moogly. I've never had much luck with dclerk. Howie wrote
| > > fpweb IIRC with dclerk, but I've only had dependable luck running
| > > reports to import and export data from filePro.
| > 
| > I was told by two people that using *report is faster than using *clerk by
| > about 30%.  I've never had the occasion to test this claim, however.
| 
| That's like saying "using a typewriter is faster than using a microwave".
| Since *report and *clerk do different things, how does one compare timings?

Well, in the case of CLERK and REPORT, both can be used
to do similar things.

Note John Esak's ROL? program and my BCLERK program (both
of which do similar things, his using CLERK and mine using
REPORT).

Had CLERK had the @MENU faciltity at the time I wrote the
first version of BCLERK I probably would have used it.  But
it didn't, so I'm stuck with an application of filePro that
is still microseconds faster than one using CLERK.

Bob

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