OpenEuphoria

Re: high file count in application

• Posted by "Greg Haberek" <g.haberek at comcast.net> Dec 01, 2003
• 646 views

Euphoria has a pre-written database library called EDS (Euphoria Database
System) and it's quite easy to use. I'm sure you could create a table called
"Files" then for each record, have the key be the filename and the data be
the file data. So your database would look like this:

    table "Files"
        record 1:
            key: "my_file01.dat"
            data: {sequence of data here...}
        record 2:
            key: "another file.dat"
            data: {more file data...}

You could then list the files in your application, thereby having a
'virtual' directory in one file. When the user requests a file, grab the
data from the database. Simple. Quick. Moderately pain-free.

HTH,
~Greg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Spaulding" <oregeopeter at aol.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Cc: <orepeter at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:07 AM
Subject: high file count in application


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>   Hello to Euphoria programming fans...
>  I've been playing with Euphoria 1.5 (more recently, the
> complete edition of 2.3), attempting to  build an Earth
> science application. It relies on editing of EU sequences,
> assembly of libraries of small files consisting of text docs
> and EU sequences (scripts) - the scripts are then assembled
> into  hierarchy - into a "model", which can be saved and
> then run, using a "viewer" application (choosing the
> small file approach in order to conserve memory
> for the application,  flexibility and compatibility
> between the DOS and Windows version.) The problem with
> this is that the directories will surely have hundreds
> of these files,to slow up people's scandisk and
> virus scanners. Does anyone know  the best, fast EU
> include  for archiving such files so that they can be
> broken out for each session? (Or is a call to an
> external zip/unzip application be more efficient?)
>                           Peter
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