Need a clever way to load all the qualifier names...
Jay R. Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Wed Jun 8 11:20:48 PDT 2005
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:34:03AM -0500, Mike Schwartz wrote:
> Opendir-nextdir commands work OK, but they are tedious to write
> and there isn't a mask for qualifiers, so they tend to require a lot
> of disk I/O. (Some of the filePro files I am working with have
> hundreds of files in them, mostly selects, like se.ltty230,
> sel.tty942,se.lpeteb, etcetera that I have to weed through to find the
> key files.) I am going to have to do this for numerous reports, so I
> need something that is simple to implement and runs as quickly as
> possible, because I am feeding this data out to web browsers in
> response to sales rep queries, so transaction time will be critical.
Well, if you're willing to assume that
qualify
is correct, you can just open it and read lines.
Perhaps an hourly cron job to make sure it *is* correct?
Cheers,
-- jra
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