Re: help pascal basics

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From: Seak, Teng-Fong
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:00

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     Hmm, in a database, I would have expected a chained record, ie with the
use of pointers, for the sack of sorting and data expansion. Otherwise one has
to provide a very large table to map every individual record.  Anyway, dynamic
dbase is always better than static dbase.

Osmo Ronkanen wrote:

> How about:
> type timerecord=record
>                   year:word;
>                   case boolean of
>                     false: (min,hour,day,month:byte);
>                     true:  (compfield:longint);
>                   End
>                 End;
> [etc]

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