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- From: Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg)
- Subject: Re: Ingres questions followup
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 06:16:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <17651@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- > Joe Keane writes:
- > In article <BxLBKH.2w0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- > mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney) writes:
- > >Traditionally, files under VMS are limited to 65534 byte records. That's
- > >because for normal variable length record files, the record length is
- > stored
- > >in the two bytes before the record.
- >
- > That is so dumb. What kind of operating system is it? It looks like a
- > C-64.
- > I mean, sometimes you can get away with using less bytes if you're clever.
- > But having variable-length fields break when you get to 64KB is
- > unacceptable.
- > Joe Keane, professional programmer
-
- Did my mailer edit the smiley out of this one?
-
- By the way, there are a fair number of apps (not to mention the PICK O/S)
- that have plenty of good reasons to store whomping big things in single
- records. E-Mail systems and object databases, to mention but two.
- So, if this was sarcasm, it missed the ball twice. Try one more time at bat?
-
- --
- Mischa Sandberg ... Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca
- or uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Mischa_Sandberg
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