Reading Filepro Index

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Tue Nov 2 07:05:56 PDT 2010


On 11/1/2010 6:37 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> 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.

Well, in the case of an index, it's a list of free nodes within the index, 
as opposed to "record numbers" within the filePro file itself.

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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