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5034: Re: [MUD-Dev] Persistant storage.... My current idea.
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From: Ben Greear <greear@cyberhighway.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 21:40:09 -0700 (MST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
> Why not put your headers (pointers to the seek pos)
> into a separate file, an index file.
>
> Then you'd be very similar to an xDBM or ISAM. :)
Its just one more piece of state to deal with. Since I'll be loading the
DB rarely, then might as well just re-compute at boot. Still, not a bad
idea...might do it anyway :)
Ben Greear (greear@cyberhighway.net) http://www.primenet.com/~greear
Author of ScryMUD: mud.primenet.com 4444
http://www.primenet.com/~greear/ScryMUD/scry.html