Processing to add/create real fields in an existing file

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When asked his whereabouts on Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 08:55:14PM -0400, George
Simon took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
[Weird formatting fixed.]
> I don't think that can be done.  If you need those fields, and they are
> filePro files, why don't you just add the most number of fields you would
> need to the file and the store the info into them.  If no info is stored,
> no big deal.  Mass storage is very cheat these days.

I think it could be done, but it would require use of a secondary control
file to avoid locking issues if you tried to do it all in processing (or
just a plain old shell script of some sort to handle it externally).

Basically, I thought you could change the map file, and then just run
autoshuf to rewrite the key/data segments (and use dxmaint to rebuild
indices).

Make sense, anyone?

I won't get into the unstructured data aspect of it from a design point of
view.  But -technically- I thought it was possible.

mark->
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