Subj : Re: format for data storage?
To   : comp.programming
From : Rob Thorpe
Date : Sun Jul 31 2005 02:16 pm

js5895 wrote:
> How come you people don't know databases

Some of us do.  What you want to do could certainly be done with a
database, but it would be a rather heavyweight way to solve such a
simple problem.

> and the ZIP format?

The ZIP format isn't really general programming, it's the format of an
old DOS compression utility that's quite common on Windows.

Compression of course is general programming (though better treated in
comp.compression).

You could do what you ask with zip I expect.  I don't know how much of
a delay is caused by adding and removing things though, I'm sure you
could ask on a forum about it and find out.

Another possible way to solve the problem would be to store everything
as separate files in a directory.

> I thought this was
> general programming.

It is.

> CBFalconer, But that's redundant, more
> complicated and, makes all this text longer.

It isn't redundant.  At this point in the thread I could have replied
to your exact original message, but since you've removed the quoted
text I can't without having to search around to find it.

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