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From: abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ASCII & Binary sort (was:  sort question )
Message-ID: <1987@csuna.csun.edu>
Date: 20 May 89 16:52:32 GMT
References: <199448@hrc.UUCP> <810056@hpsemc.HP.COM> <10289@smoke.BRL.MIL> <415@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Reply-To: abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott Neugroschl)
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In article <415@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>Does anyone have any experience of the disadvantages (speed, size) of using
>a pure ASCII database?

Speed/size aren't that bad, IMHO.  We wrote a test driver for an embedded
system.  That used ASCII files, speed/size was OK.

The REAL problem was that the users knew just enough to be dangerous --
they'd try to edit the data files with vi(1).


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