Re: Individual Objects saving?

From: Patrick J. Dughi (dughi@IMAXX.NET)
Date: 12/01/97


> >        First, (and meaning no offense to JE), is it my imagination, or
> >does most of the objsave.c code simply multiple levels of patches?  I'm
>
> Never looked.
>
> >having trouble following the tangled skein of function calls without a
> >large printout and multi-colored highlighters.  It would  really help me
>
> Does the cxref listing on the documentation project help?

        Yah, but barely. This is why I thought that it was mostly a large
number of fixes/addons.

>
> >        How many people use the rent? It may be standard on many
>
> I do.
        1 :)  Anyone else?

> >        I prefer ascii files because I can quickly check errors - because
> >I'm lazy, they usually stay that way.   Not to reopen an old binary vs.
> >ascii file thing,  but since its easiest to save objects as they are in
> >the obj file, wouldn't this be the better choice?
>
> Why not use OLC routines to save objects to disk if you do that?
>
        Actually, I am, with some lil' extra stuff at the end (to see if I
can't optimize between certain things that olc dosen't save (like the fact
that it's unique and therefore requires special attention, or other things
like uhm, if its mail and has been written on, etc.  Suddenly, i'm
blanking out. :)

                                        PjD


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