in reply to Flat Files

Thanks all, about srand..The file that contains the emails will get huge, I am using one main text file to store all emails signed up..we may be talking about 1-2k per day emails. Can it handle this ?

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Re: Re: Flat Files
by Malkavian (Friar) on Mar 05, 2001 at 21:05 UTC
    Depends on the OS you're using.
    Filesize is not a Perl issue, as far as I know.
    However, on a pre 2.4 linux Kernel, the file limit is 2GB.
    BSD variants don't have this and can go significantly above this limit (far more than you'll get in a few weeks of plain text).
    The same goes for NT and Novell. Not sure about the win 9x variants tho.

    HTH,

    Malk
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      Actually file size can be a Perl issue. If you have Perl and compile without large file support, then you will be limited to 2 GB files, even if your OS can handle much larger. (Not that this matters to most people.)
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(boo)Re: Re: Flat Files
by boo_radley (Parson) on Mar 05, 2001 at 21:03 UTC
    Please explain the reasoning for doing this -- it seems suboptimal.

    update

    Fine. that may be a bit terse.
    The reason why I ask is because you seem to be ignoring some decent advice that will change your methodologies, and requesting help wastefully shoring up something that may not scale to the level you expect it will.

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