RE: Speed of Book Creation in FM 7

["Lin Sims" <linda.sims@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Geez, louise, folks. Think about this. Opening 200 binary files one 
after another is going to take time no matter what program you're 
using. I know that opening even a 10-file book using 5.5.6 on a UNIX 
platform took a few minutes, too, and I expected it to take longer the 
more files I opened. I also expected it to take MUCH longer on a wintel 
platform, simply because Windows (still, as far as I can tell) cannot 
handle RAM all that well. And RAM is where all those files are being 
opened, so there's another performance hit.

I'm not saying you have to be happy about it, but be reasonable in your 
expectations. Just remember--you could be using Word to open those 
200 (or 2,070 (ye gods!!)) files.


On 23 Jul 2002 at 11:08, eric.dunn@ca.transport.bombar wrote:

> Well,
> 
> Now is the time for the cries of complaint from the power users who
> need a powerful, robust, and fast application not friendly fluff.
> Geez, just let me turn the thing off in an options dialog somewhere.
> 
> One listmember told me off-list that it takes them 20 minutes to open
> a 200 file book. It's not only me that's suffering a waste of time on
> this. Would seem to me that a book file should only analyze files if
> and when a generate/update is performed. Or, for the masochists or
> those luck enough to working with tiny little book files the option
> for automatic updating could be turned on.
Lin Sims

Of course I'm willing to take 'No' for an answer, so long as 'No' was the 
answer I was looking for.


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