X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["392" "Sat" "21" "June" "1997" "10:38:00" "+0100" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "10" "VMS rules ok" "^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 LAA02357; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 11:37:55 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <8.052BCF5C@listserv.gmd.de>; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 11:37:53 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 157318 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 11:37:48 +0200 Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id LAA27685 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 11:37:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA03230 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 10:34:08 +0100 (BST) Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Sat, 21 Jun 1997 10:38:12 +0100 Received: from knott.elsevier.co.uk (knott.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.165]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA05713 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 10:38:08 +0100 (BST) Received: (from srahtz@localhost) by knott.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.5) id KAA21571; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 10:38:00 +0100 (BST) References: <009B6130.88808440.52@triumf.ca> Message-ID: <199706210938.KAA21571@knott.elsevier.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <009B6130.88808440.52@triumf.ca> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 10:38:00 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: VMS rules ok Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2150 Donald Arseneau writes: > 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? do you keep all your personal files in a single directory? sebastian