MH>"Bother," said Pooh to Tim Hutzler about Need More Memory.
TH>There are some 32-bit compilers for DOS out there: Watcom for one.
TH>You can compile flat-model code for DOS. The "virtual" heap is a
MH>Welp, unfortunately I bought Borland and don't have the money to
MH>change  compilers.....:(
Borland compiles 32-bit, unless you have v3, or lower. And, don;t cut
Borland too much, they have a good price/point ratio, even if they
don't have every feature that other (gates) guy has.
MH>The "nodelist" is the Fidonet Nodelisting which is approx 2.5mb.
Yea, someone else set me straight on that.
Anyway, you don't *have* to read in the entire file, and (in fact)
you really don't want to. Just create indexes of offsets into the
file and seek to it. You can have a one-to-one corespondence to
entries, or one index can handle several entries. Either way the
overhead is far less than loading the entire file.
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