Ken sez:

> I have had almost no problems with POSIX programs
> reading plain text files of any sort, bytestream, fixed or variable.  As
> long as the program is going to only read it, not write to it or try to seek
> to a specific place in the file, there shouldn't be a problem.

Be forewarned, though, that this can have significant performance impact
because of the byte-stream emulator. Here's a case in point:

When Mike and I were first doing the Java port, we had the class library
in a variable length file and couldn't understand why performance was
so bad. Almost at the same instant, both of us independently discovered
that simply converting the file from variable to byte-stream had orders
of magnitidue better effect on performance.

While that's not an issue with httpd.conf because it is only read
once, there are cases where NOT converting to a byte-stream file
will adversely affect you.

Regards,


M.

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