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From: frobozz@well.sf.ca.us (Jordan Bortz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Need help with BOSS  )=:
Keywords: Aacckk!!
Message-ID: <16694@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 15 Mar 90 05:12:03 GMT
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	I have been trying to use BOSS to store simple data, but the
	documentation is pathetic.  What I would ideally like to do,
	is something like the following:

		frabble :=  TastyBossInterface on: 'file.boss'.

		frabble at: 'RaceCar' put: aForm.

		<and then later....>

		aForm _ frabble at: 'RaceCar'.


		Is this doable?  Has anyone written a BOSS interface to
		seek to positions in the file, or is it only a sequential stream?

	On a related issue, what happened to the performance on the MAC?
	Speed is down, and memory usage seems to be up!!  It seems like I'll
	need a iiCI or better just to get the performance I used to get on 2.3!
	I think ParcPlace ought to find some other C compiler..... especially
	If they used MPW's C compiler.

	Thanks in advance for the info....

		Jordan
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