another multi-user "solution"?

[Richard Gaskin]

sims wrote:
> At 10:10 PM -0700 4/25/05, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>>
>> I'm not sure if this will work for you, but lately I've been using 
>> tab-delimited text for the sorts of things I used to use cards for. I 
>> maintain a one-card window for display, pouring data into the fields 
>> as needed, but the data itself is maintained as just straight text.  
>> Fast, flexible, and about as small as it can be....
> 
> Is this usually reading from text files or using custom properties?

I rarely use text files, since I'd need to parse them and the engine 
does this well with custom props, field-tested and proven for more than 
a decade, with simple and efficient one-liners for getting at the data.

Most commonly I store tab-delimited lists in properties, and since I'm 
using properties I can store any number of them in a single file.  It's 
like having a multi-table database, simple to slice and dice at will 
with minimal effort.

For more ideas on using stack files for general data storage see:
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2002-July/006149.html>

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