RE: MI Programming

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Al,

At 04:13 AM 3/23/98 -0500, you wrote:

>>I agree that MI can be useful, but I would always look at the latest list of
>>APIs. I know the data queue was just an example, but there is now an API
>>that would allow you to read the data queue without removing the entries.
>>
>There is also a TAATOOL that accomplished the same thing with considerably
>less effort.  It's been around since the year of the flood, but it is one
>of those tools where you had to buy the new package, or maintain your own
>code.

 There is / was a potential problem w/ the TAATOOL version of this program:
 If the program was cancelled w/o exiting gracefully, entries could be
lost.  Does the new version use the API?  Or does it still use the read /
rewrite method?

 -mark

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