Anton, Thank you very much for your swift and detailed response.
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 01:18, Anton Ertl wrote: > > Another alternative is to write the blocks to a block device (e.g., a > hard disk partition) instead of a file on a file system. On Linux > this writes synchronously in my experience. > It had never occurred to me that this could be done. I suppose one would have to create a dedicated partition, but once that was done wouldn't the performance be pretty good? I may be one of the few who miss using blocks since forth started running on top of operating systems, but this sounds like a way to get back to one of the things that appealed to me about forth in the first place, avoiding using other operating systems. Unfortunately I wouldn't know how to implement it. Gforth is a black box to me since it relies so much on C and the OS. Would it be hard to do. Would it be worthwhile for anyone else? Thanks again Anton. Charley. -- Charles Shattuck AM Research, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
