speed of detail reader server

[Alan DeKok]

Michael Fowler wrote:
> The detail reader is serial in nature, meaning it will read a packet,
> transmit it, and wait for a response.  Upon receipt of an ack it will
> repeat for the next packet.  If you have any sort of latency on your
> link you can easily get heavily backlogged.

  The serial nature is largely due to the serial format of the detail
file.  If we switched to something like sqlite, that could be fixed.

  Alan DeKok.