ugogan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jim Gogan) (07/25/88)
I am writing a stack to take care of keeping bibliographies, using
the MLA format. When it writes the material to a text file, it goes
through every field, 20 total in this version and 1 bkgnd, writes
the card to a temp variable,goes to the next card and adds it to the
it to the text file on the hard disk. My question is: how fast should
the save be? I have twenty cards each with twenty fields, if the field
is empty, it is skipped. Right now it is taking a second per card!!
This seems really slow, can anyone out there help a beginner?
There must be some clever loop, or something to save time doing the
save, cuz 1 sec/card is forever with a 400 card stack. Help me!!
I am using Jim's id to post this until I get my own id. So send him
the answers and he will pass them on. Thanks in advance from a first
time logonner(?)
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Jim Gogan mail:ugogan@ecsvax (UUCP/BITNET)
Microcomputing Support Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599