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the prototype I'm using is 'tcp' since its within a group of systems in computer lab.

Is there a efficient method to file i/o other than Open(fileh,">filename")


I'm not quiet familiar about an alternate.

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Re^9: Single server-multiple clients
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 20, 2010 at 20:41 UTC

    No, there is no more efficient method, but as long as all machines use the same hardware device, you won't see any speedup by making two or more machines read from the same drive. And the speed of calculating an MD5 is essentially bound by the speed you can read the data from disk. And a single process can max out your harddisk already, unless you have an SSD drive.

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      Interesting, I just got to know that. Will add to my knowledge book.
      thanks a million for the helpcorion and BrowserUK.
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