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From: glenn@ocsmd.ocs.com (glenn ford)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: search
Message-ID: <775@ocsmd.ocs.com>
Date: 23 Aug 89 13:48:07 GMT
References: <184@stsim.UUCP> <706@ftp.COM>
Reply-To: glenn@ocsmd.ocs.com (glenn ford)
Organization: Online Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <706@ftp.COM> wjr@ftp.UUCP (Bill Rust) writes:
>with floppies, is just read in the whole database. On a PC, you can
>get upwards of 500K of data read in, with a small program, and, at
>that point, your searching technique matters a lot less.
This is what I ended up doing.  I just read the whole database into
memory and then search from there.  My database is fairly small, but
when forced to run off a floppy drive it was too slow.  Thanks for
the replies to all!

Glenn Ford
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