"Export dbm" program

Dale S. Johnson (dsj at merit.edu) on December 13:
> What I was thinking about was the public ftp repository:  the place folks
> go to get data is they want to do some analysis (like the PRDB reports 
> files).  If this is only updated once per day, then you have an annoying
> average-of-twelve-hours-out-of-date problem.  But suppose this file in
> the anonymous ftp directory was actually the file that the registry ran
> off:  the one that dbupdate updated.  Then whoever got ftp'd this file
> for making reports would have absolutely up-to-date information.  (With
> the caveat that his info might be so up-to-date that there's a half-finished
> record written at the end of the file).

Dale,

I do not see the point in doing this. As we discussed, one can not
achieve synchronisation by simply keeping the ftp copy more
up-to-date.

Also the format of the ftp'able database and one in production may
differ (some parties may use informix for example).

If you want more up-to-date copy of the database, just play the deltas
to the copy of the database you have locally.

Cengiz

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Cengiz Alaettinoglu       Information Sciences Institute
cengiz at isi.edu            University of Southern California




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