I think you complicating things ... Troy has it right: Sure files could be resized, and code re-engineered, and all these good thing do help, but I reduced a process scanning 20 million records from 12 days to 2 days just taking out the CRT to screen informing the user of progress (or lack of progress.)
on such a large number I'd set the interval to around 20000, so that the code as below sits at n,count += 1 if rem(count,20000) then CRT n.count:' / ' : tot.count end On 1 May 2012 11:03, Buss, Troy (Contractor, Logitek Systems) < troy.b...@nordsonasymtek.com> wrote: > Good point... For progress indications, I tend to do the following on the > mass updates: > > N.COUNT += 1 > IF REM(COUNT, 1000) ELSE CRT "+": > > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users