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Date:Mon Jan 13 09:53:08 2003 
Subject:Re: New version of LIB make_indexes 
From:Jonathan L Cunningham 
Volume-ID:1030113.04 

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 02:20:23 +0000 (UTC), A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk
(Aaron Sloman) wrote:

>
>One of the things that happens by default when you re-link poplog using
>the newpop command (help newpop) is running
>
>    $popcom/make_indexes
>
>It is also done by my install scripts.
(snip)

>It still needs some tidying up. I have only just realised that it could
>probably have been made much simpler and faster by using sysfileinode
>and storing inodes of visited directories, instead of creating a
>temporary 'mark' file in each such directory.

sysfileinode() is a unix only procedure, so use of it would not be
portable to a Windows version of poplog. {This is an opportunity
for people to raise general comments about cross-platform
compatibility issues.}

I'm not sure that there is the equivalent of make_indexes in the
Wnidows version of poplog which is installed on my machine, but
there should be one: it should also be much simpler for users to
re-link windows poplog in the next version too.

Jonathan

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