The c-treeACE Local Library model (LOCLIB) is a hybrid model that integrates the Stand Alone model with the Standard Client/Server model in one library. This gives you the ability to access data on a c-treeACE Server and on a local drive at the same time. This model is especially popular on systems where speed and efficiency can be gained by using the local drive in lieu of taking the network hit to access a server. Temporary work files, extracted server data, local database information, and special "on the fly" index files are typically candidates for local disk access.
A LOCLIB library is a merger of the Stand Alone file I/O logic and c-treeACE Server's client communication logic in the same library. Applications which link with the combined library have the best of both worlds by being able to access a local disk and one or more c-treeACE Servers—the function calls are the same for both channels of I/O. Applications simply invoke a "switch" function call to direct the focus of the next operation.
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