Hi Peter,

-=> On 26 Feb 97  06:54:20 Peter Schuller said to Andrew Grillet <=-


 PS> I'm gonna have to find out how fast pipes is, I haven't used'em
 PS> too  much. I suppose copying 500 Kbs of data into a pipe is almost as
 PS> fast as  copying the file to disk. 

Worst case, it is copying to disk. Normally the bufffer is passed in memory
and never gest written to disk.

 PS> make sure all the  data is waiting in the pipe before reading, that way
 PS> I wouldn't have to worry  about the server being slower than the client

No use read with 'wait til the data is there' - then the task will release the
processor til the data is ready - possibly to the server task if its on the 
same machine.

 PS> None taken. Although maybe you're right, I haven't used SQL. 

Actually, learning SQL is pretty trivial. The real problem is that 
to use SQL you have to use some database's extensions cos of what 
the SQL can't do. Like using #pragma() in C.

Andrew




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