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RE .0-.2
Being the responsible developer at the time :-) The reasons for there not
being an XADN are as follows:-
Because ADN takes so long and uses up alot of resources, a multiple ADN
would only make system performance worse. This was certainly true for
V2.3/V2.4. This is why you have the ADL/XADL options to mark documents for
later archive by the housekeeping procedure. This is to stop the system
falling on its Knees when you get multiple users doing lots of multiple
archives at the same time. An XADN option would be like emptying your
wastebasket only worse!
Apart from that it is not difficult to implement, the reason it was not
done was we didn't want to clobber performance. As a piece of history, when
the original archive was first developed there was an XADN type option, but
since performance was so bad it was taken out. Which is why it never made
it into any released version of ALL-IN-1.
Does that answer your question?
-Paul
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