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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 04:27:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: sfio
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i will comment to the list when i have more experience with it.  looks 
good so far.

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Chuck Robey wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Ben Black wrote:
> 
> > as i said, *looks* like a valuable replacement.  i think it is worth 
> > investigating further.  my experience has been it is faster than stdio.  
> > also, the sfdesc library is *very* nice.
> 
> I'm just wary of exchanging a knows set of bugs for an unknown set.  If
> you have comments on it, I'd be really interested in that.
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Ben Black wrote:
> > > 
> > > > has anyone played with sfio?  it looks like a valuable replacement for 
> > > > stdio...
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.oasis.leo.org/perl/src/independent/sfio.dsc.html
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Nice to look at, but for something that's so very pivotally important to
> > > nearly everything, I think some more experience with it is needed.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
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> ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
> Chuck Robey                 | Interests include any kind of voice or data 
> chuckr@eng.umd.edu          | communications topic, C programming, and Unix.
> 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1  |
> Greenbelt, MD 20770         | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD
> (301) 220-2114              | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN!
> ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
>