Re: Possible hardpressed bug

[fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)]

In article <RWIFALL.93Jul8212342@dante.nmsu.edu> rwifall@nmsu.edu (Richard J Wifall) writes:
>	When HardPressed is writing tempfiles, if it gets a Volume
>Full on the volume the temp folder is located, it tends to leave the
>temporary file open.  This of course prevents you from deleting it or
>the like until you reboot.

Hmm.  Okay, I'll check it out.  Not dangerous, but sort of inconvenient.

>	Also... Since it didn't get answered on CSA2P I'll ask here..
>:)  What is the limit on catagories in HardPressed profiles?  The
>sample code has 20 catagories I believe.  Is there a max? a min?
>(presumably 1 would be the min :)

The "All" profiles have a single all-encompassing category in them, which
is why they're smaller.  The practical max is probably around 4K, since
the profiles would be huge, but I can't imagine why you'd want more than
30 or 40.

>	And is it ok to release profiles to the general public that are
>based on sample profile code?  (I assume that's what's it's there for,
>but just making sure )

Yup.  Release all you want. :-)

FYI, there should be a v1.0.1 sometime in the future.  Besides trying to
fix stuff like the HCGS problems, I'm going to change it so that "TXT" is
compressed by the Standard profiles, and Your Money Matters files will
be over in the Sparse category.

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fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]