X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["671" "Fri" "20" "June" "1997" "18:30:46" "PST" "Donald Arseneau" "asnd@TRIUMF.CA" nil "17" "Re: discussing relation of LaTeX to TeX successors" "^Date:" nil nil "6" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id DAA22293; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 03:34:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <14.84DCC2B5@listserv.gmd.de>; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 3:34:42 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 157148 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 03:34:33 +0200 Received: from REG.TRIUMF.CA (reg.Triumf.CA [142.90.100.2]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with SMTP id DAA23489 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 03:34:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by triumf.ca (MX V4.0-1 VAX) id 52; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:30:47 PST Message-ID: <009B6130.88808440.52@triumf.ca> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:30:46 PST From: Donald Arseneau Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: discussing relation of LaTeX to TeX successors Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2148 >Then again my CD has over 5000 tfm files. If I do > \font\foo=foo.tfm >you are going to have to look at all of them, arent you? hard to see >how to cut that down rationally. With a file structure that is more than a stream of bytes. VMS has file *records* and *indexed* files. VMS *should* be able to do a binary search for a file name in a directory file. If you break your inputs directory into a zillion subdirectories then there is no rational way to search that tree. Does the TDS commit such a foul crime? Anyway, it is not VMS TeX that needs its own hashed database of input files. What a kluge! Donald Arseneau asnd@reg.triumf.ca