Reading Filepro Index

Jean-Pierre A. Radley appl at jpr.com
Mon Nov 1 15:37:32 PDT 2010


Cindy Youngman propounded (on Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 05:32:48PM -0400):
| ... what the heck are free chains?

I'm pretty sure it's like this: the freechain is a linked list of empty
(i.e. unused|available|free) record numbers.  If a record number is part
of the freechain (thus implicity not in use) it should not show up in an
index.

-- 
JP


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