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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Archive scanner from SIMTEL?
Message-ID: <826@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 5 Oct 89 13:48:53 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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  Has anyone used the archive list scanner (simtel25.arc) which is
supposedly able to scan the archive lists (simibm.idx)? I pulled a copy
down and tried to load the list using the 'U' command, and it hung. I
tried cutting the list down, and it worked for 1000 and 2000 entries.
When I got up to 3k it went away, presumably.
	1000  9.56 sec
	2000 16.30 sec
	3000 killed after 14 min(!)

  Is this just a buggy program, or is there a trick to this? I have 4MB
memory, nothing but ANSI.SYS in memory, 578k free. Any advice other than
"go back to grep" is welcome.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon