Ken Sletten writes:

> Gavin wrote:
>
>  >> Ken writes:
>  >> Yup....  So has AICS Research, with QueryCalc.  I believe both
>  >> Robelle and AICS Research use essentially the same MR NOBUF
>  >> technique to significantly speed up READ-ONLY serial access...
>
>  > Are you sure?  I thought Wirt was allergic to PRIV mode :-)
>
>  I stand ready to be corrected and chastised, if I have inadvertently
>  strayed from the true path of technical truth...

You have no reason to worry, Ken. You're completely correct. MR NOBUF has been
in QueryCalc for about six or seven years. And Gavin's right, too (sort of
:-).

I am allergic to doing anything tricky. But PRIV modes reads against an IMAGE
database don't fall into that category. PRIV mode is on an IMAGE database
primarily to keep the database files from being accidentally purged or
overwritten.

Wirt Atmar