From: "Firestone, Mark - Technical Support" Date: 2002-09-23T19:27:10+09:00 Subject: RE: Yet Another "Thickie" question from Mark I thought you would say that. I could just stick all the text in arrays... hmmm. Feels lazy to me. (: Mark [---------] "I must hurry back to my comic book store, where I dispense the insults rather than absorb them." [---------] -----Original Message----- From: Bulat Ziganshin [mailto:bulatz@integ.ru] Sent: 23 September 2002 10:43 To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Subject: Re: Yet Another "Thickie" question from Mark Hello Mark, Monday, September 23, 2002, 12:39:25 PM, you wrote: FMTS> I'm now working on porting a game called "Global Destruction" to my BBS FMTS> software. The way this game is written (in C++) it has a datafile full of FMTS> text (it's about 107k worth of text..) FMTS> In my old language of Pascal, I would make this into a File of Records and FMTS> read it from the disk as I needed it. interpreter itself uses 1-2 megs of memory, so... ;) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@integ.ru NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail.