Hi Carl,
On Saturday, September 7, 2002, 2:53:19 AM, you wrote:
CR> And a question for those others: Does...
CR> file: open/lines file-name
CR> load the whole file into memory anyway?
It does, if you don't use /DIRECT. (Actually, in theory it should
only load a portion of it, based on the amount of free memory
available; i.e. if it fits into memory, it loads it entirely.
However, it always loaded the whole file into memory for me.)
You can check it by using:
>> file: open/lines/read %AUTOEXEC.BAT
>> file/state/inBuffer
== ["SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 T6" "SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS"
"C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM" {mode con codepage...
Regards,
Gabriele.
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