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From: grahamd@otc.otca.oz.au (Graham Dumpleton)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Index files for .do objects.
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Date: 21 Mar 90 04:38:00 GMT
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This mail is mainly addressed to whoever at CMU looks after this aspect
of Andrew, however it may be of general interest.

For a number of projects we carry out here, ADEW applications have been
created to interface into various bits of hardware. Now when someone
creates one of these they generally mail it around to everyone and say
something like "Hey guys get a load of this" with the idea of everyone
trying it and see what they think. Well we have come up with one problem
with this.

Most of those actively using Andrew here will often sit inside messages
all day, now because all the index files are only checked once; when the
program is run, if someone sends around mail which references a new
object messages will not find it as it only bothers to check its in
memory tables for what objects are available. This means that messages
must be exited and rerun to get the new object.

Is there any problems with having the code for finding and linking in
new objects reread any index files which have changed since it last read
them, in the event of an object not being found.

Would someone at CMU like to comment.

Graham Dumpleton (grahamd@otc.otca.oz.au)