"The key file uses more space than it needs..."

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:22:11 -0500):

> "...should I shrink the file?".
>
> So... if you say *no*, how does filepro know where the field boundaries
> are?

The same way it always knows -- the field boundaries are between every
field, just as before.  Any unused space is at the end of the record.

[...]
> Alternatively, if it restructures every record so that the intra-record
> offsets match the new layout, where does it cache the "real" record
> length (as opposed to the total of the current field lengths)?

It's in the map file, where it's always been:

    http://www.fptech.com/Products/Docs/FPFormat/ftmap.shtml

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