ASCII & Binary sort (was: sort question )

[Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl]

In article <415 at crdgw1.crd.ge.com> barnett at crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>Does anyone have any experience of the disadvantages (speed, size) of using
>a pure ASCII database?

Speed/size aren't that bad, IMHO.  We wrote a test driver for an embedded
system.  That used ASCII files, speed/size was OK.

The REAL problem was that the users knew just enough to be dangerous --
they'd try to edit the data files with vi(1).


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