Reading files and memory

Gregory Lypny gregory.lypny at videotron.ca
Fri Jul 4 09:54:00 EDT 2003


Hello Everyone,

	I recently learned from Xavier that using Open File for Read and the 
Read command places less demand on memory than Put url ("file:" etc...) 
because the latter reads the entire file into memory.

	Is the same true when writing data to a file?  I mean, is it better to 
use

		Open File X for write
		Write etc.
		Close file X

	than

		Put stuff after url ("file:" & X) ?

		Regards,

			Greg




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