Cleanup question

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:31:26PM -0500, Bob Stockler wrote:
> file with an Alien file with record length equal to
> the target file's filePro record length + 20.  Then
> move through that Alien file in record number order.
> On landing on an empty record do a lookup by record
> number to records later in the file until an active,
> used one is found, then swap the two records.

<moron type="inattentive">
But, Bob; I always thought that the key file had a fixed size header
in front of the *entire file*, in addition to the one on *each record*.

No?

Just a record 0 to handle housekeeping for the file?
</moron>

Cheers,
-- jra
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