Re: Time/Date/Etc In Xpl

[Joel Houplin]

Carl,

Thanks for the nice comments.

The whole point, however, is that for the many users out there who have not
upgraded to XyWrite 4 -- for whatever reason -- DO need to have some way of
obtaining the time/date date.

Our experience here is that XyWrite 3.55 - 3.57 is an order of magnitude faster
than 4.xx, requires far less memory, and the way it is used here is preferred
over the newer version.

We use XyWrite in a highly automated "robot" mode, whereby a dedicated PC sits
on a Unix-based server network, processing files as they come in from various
sources including wire services, commercial databases, dial-in ports etc.

Every day we process over 12 megabytes of incoming data, including the
equivalent of 5-1/2 broadsheet pages of stockmarket agate, 3-1/2 pages of
sports agate including race cards, league tables, etc.

All of this is done using XPL macros, running completely unattended, and has
now been working successfully since January 1991. If it ain't broke - don't fix
it!

I've looked at the new XyWrite 4 XPL functions and have salivated over the
possibilities - but speed is of the essence and v4 simply can't cut it. Now if
the back room boys at TG could port the v4 XPL functions to v3 ... what a dream
world that would be!