>What number might you specify to optimize elapsed and/or CPU time without >"being ridiculous"? ...
Mike Coombs (formerly of IBM Canada & the original authour of the 'Storage Management Institute) used to advise that anything making the total buffers for an individual file over 200K was LDR. Of course, this was on ES/9000 processors, prior to ESA 5. -teD In God we Trust! All others bring data! -- W. Edwards Deming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

