Thanks to all for the input! I _tried_ to run the script over night. I added an echo to tell me which input file I was working on. I came in this morning. It had been running from 14:00 to 06:30 (16 1/2 hours) and was still on the first input file. That ain't gonna cut it. Time to rethink. Using a Perl hash to contain an open file handle seems logical. As does buffering multiple records per output file to do a single I/O to write them. But I may be forced into using C or C++ for speed. Too bad I'm not a very good C programmer.
-- Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
