File restructure bastardization

[Jeff Harrison]

--- John Esak <john at valar.com> wrote:
[snip]
> 
> 
> Well, two things.  I would guess that you took this
> technique from the NEX
> Accounti8ng Group which I released back in the late
> 80's. 

[snip]

> The
> only difference I can see to what you do, is that I
> never bothered to edit
> the map file. Just sucking up the extra characters
> into the top-most empty
> field and decrementing the value in the very last
> expansion field does it
> all.
...
> The restructure does not affect anything that
> comes before it, and it
> does not change the total number of fields. The
> whole scheme worked without
> flaw for the many packages of NEX that I sold.
> 
[snip]

No, I don't know what the NEX Accounting group is.  I
had never seen that.  Nor have I ever seen the GURU. 
This is a technique that I developed independently.

The advantage of my method is that you don't need to
know how many fields you are going to need - you do,
of course, need to know how many characters you are
going to need.  If (read that when) you need more
characters you are still going to need to restructure
and expand your Extra field to a big number again.


Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com


		
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