Re: HELP! a question about FM files conversion

[jeremy@xxxxxxxxx (Jeremy H. Griffith)]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:06:04 -0400, "Lau, Kar Wai A (Ann)** CTR **" <klau@lucent.com> wrote:

>My trouble:  the .mif files (or .fm files) are so DAMN LONG!!  If i use my
>Java program to "hard-code" those tags into the .mif files with the desired
>Oracle data, I have no clue how many lines of tags would need to accomplish
>this task.  I created a simple .fm file with ONLY 2 COLUMNS AND 2 ROWS.
>Such table after conversion in .mif format, although I could read them as
>simple ASCII file, but it's over 174 pages...!

You could reduce the size a bit by stripping out any unused master pages,
unused reference pages (like the HTML ref pages), unused formats, etc.,
but you'll still have a big file.  That's just how it is.

>What would be the best way to do this, may I ask?  How would you suggest in
>the insertion?

You have a perfectly good method now.  If it's slow, try replacing Java
with C/C++, or even with perl; Java is notoriously sluggish.

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  (jeremy@omsys.com)  http://www.omsys.com/

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