The OP was worried about a Unix directory not being able to handle the thousands of jpegs he had.
I can't offer help as to how to store binary in a hashed file (other than what some other person suggested - convert it to ascii somehow eg uuencode or whatsit64), but I think you may well be able to store these files efficiently in a directory. Look at the various filesystems available - they may be optimised to do just what you want. In the linux world, reiserfs is apparently very good at handling thousands of small files such as a mail or news spool. And I've heard of at least one project to handle directories as hashed files (I don't know any more about that, though). There might well be something out there that stores the directory listing as a btree or somesuch that's efficient. Cheers, Wol -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Banker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 August 2007 14:23 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Binary data corruption on copy Universe doesn't have the noconvert command. -----Original Message----- From: David A. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:06 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Binary data corruption on copy Harold, In UniData you would store your binary files in a DIR type file. When you need to read the data you would first issue the NOCONVERT ON Command to keep the auto conversion of Nulls to CHAR(128) from happening. Thanks, David A. Green DAG Consulting 480-813-1725 ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
