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Re: [MUD-Dev] Persistant storage.... My current idea.




On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Jon A. Lambert wrote:

> Why not put your headers (pointers to the seek pos)
> into a separate file, an index file.
> 
> Then you'd be very similar to an xDBM or ISAM. :)

Its just one more piece of state to deal with.  Since I'll be loading the
DB rarely, then might as well just re-compute at boot.  Still, not a bad
idea...might do it anyway :)


Ben Greear (greear#cyberhighway,net)  http://www.primenet.com/~greear 
Author of ScryMUD:  mud.primenet.com 4444
http://www.primenet.com/~greear/ScryMUD/scry.html





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