Re: Hi reliability files, writing,reading,maintaining

2006-02-09 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Pote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >The motivation to look at http: is the widespread avaiability of internet >connections and standard servers able to run CGI scripts. In particular the

Re: Hi reliability files, writing,reading,maintaining

2006-02-09 Thread John Pote
Thanks for all the replies, > > Also, the whole idea of basing reliability on HTTP uploads of 50 bytes > at a time sounds to me a bit ... strained. There *must* be simpler > ways--and simpler goes a long way in the direction of trustworthy. > The motivation to look at http: is the widespread av

Re: Hi reliability files, writing,reading,maintaining

2006-02-09 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin P. Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >John Pote wrote: > >> So my request: >> 1. Are there any python modules 'out there' that might help in securely >> writing such files. >> 2. Can anyone suggest a book or two on this kind of file management. (These >> kind

Re: Hi reliability files, writing,reading,maintaining

2006-02-09 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
John Pote wrote: > So my request: > 1. Are there any python modules 'out there' that might help in securely > writing such files. > 2. Can anyone suggest a book or two on this kind of file management. (These > kind of problems must have been solved in the financial world many times). > I can't a