I thought you would say that. I could just stick all the text in arrays…
hmmm. Feels lazy to me. (:
Mark
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bulat Ziganshin [mailto:bulatz@integ.ru]
Sent: 23 September 2002 10:43
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: Yet Another “Thickie” question from Mark
Hello Mark,
Monday, September 23, 2002, 12:39:25 PM, you wrote:
I’m now working on porting a game called “Global Destruction” to my
BBS
software. The way this game is written (in C++) it has a datafile
full of
text (it’s about 107k worth of text…)
In my old language of Pascal, I would make this into a File of Records
and
read it from the disk as I needed it.
interpreter itself uses 1-2 megs of memory, so… 
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Best regards,
Bulat mailto:bulatz@integ.ru
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