Hi! mark,

On 13 Dec 07 20:35, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> takes using batch stuff, don't you.  I found a shortcut method
 PQ>> that worked excellently.  Of course I'm upset.  :)

 ml> hahaha, yes, i know that some .bat processing can be slow... that's
 ml> one reason i run 4dos ;) ;)

Yeah yeah, I knew you'd come out with something like that.  :)

 ml> you could always build a (new) zone index for each new nodelist and
 ml> then jump to the zone being searched to do your sequential scan,
 ml> couldn't you? that's what i'd do in pascal, asm or C if i was to (try)
 ml> to write something like this in a compiled language...

That's pretty much how I did things with the batch.  Not so much an index
per se, just a subset of text (extracted) to search on rather than the
entire original 7,000-odd lines worth.

Oh, BTW.  I don't do so-called 'high-level' languages any more.  All the
punctuation sh!ts me off.  I l-o-v-e my simple batch stuff.

 ml> part of the problem could lie in the tools being used, too... grep is
 ml> a powerful tool that one can put to many textfile processing jobs but
 ml> some textfile database processing jobs can be a real b!tch to do ;)

Frankly, I don't have a hankering to use it.  Yes, it scares me.  I admit
it.  However the little(!) tools I've massed from the BFDS have always done
the job for me.

Cheers,
Paul.

... I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
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