Need a clever way to load all the qualifier names...

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:34:03AM -0500, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>          Opendir-nextdir  commands work OK, but they are tedious to write
>    and  there  isn't a mask for qualifiers, so they tend to require a lot
>    of  disk  I/O.   (Some  of  the  filePro  files I am working with have
>    hundreds   of   files   in  them,  mostly  selects,  like  se.ltty230,
>    sel.tty942,se.lpeteb, etcetera that I have to weed through to find the
>    key  files.)  I am going to have to do this for numerous reports, so I
>    need  something  that  is  simple  to implement and runs as quickly as
>    possible,  because  I  am  feeding  this  data  out to web browsers in
>    response  to  sales rep queries, so transaction time will be critical.

Well, if you're willing to assume that 

qualify

is correct, you can just open it and read lines.

Perhaps an hourly cron job to make sure it *is* correct?

Cheers,
-- jra
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