Via: uk.ac.leeds.gps1; Tue, 8 Nov 1994 13:41:18 +0000
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 94 13:12:33 GMT
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: cszkjw AT scs DOT leeds DOT ac DOT uk
Subject: Compiling MBase under djgpp

All the recent talk about file I/O speed finaly made me try to compile
MBase 5.1 under djgpp. Unfortunately I ran in to a few minor and a few major
problems. The minor ones were quite easy to solve (mainly header file
alterations) however I think that I may have added to the major problems by
doing this :-)

Has anybody tried compiling MBase under djgpp ? If so could they mail me.
If not, what are the major differences between disc I/O under djgpp and Unix ?

As an aside I have compiler MBase under Linux before and ha no problems.

The faults I have found so far involve the example programs, particularily the
one that adds large numbers of records to the file using mb_add(), it adds about
12-15 records then freezes dead. I have also had some problems using vr when
changing relations.

Can anybody help ? can anybody suggest other free/shareware libraries that can
do a similar job ? (indexed files with multiple indices on records etc.)

Thanks

Kevin

P.S. this will be posted to the MBase mailing list when I find the address :-)

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