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In article <1992Dec19.012355.26665@ll.mit.edu> ejon@ll.mit.edu (Eric Jones) writes:
> But isn't that exactly his point?  Sure you can write an ISAM file 
> structure using fseek (and if you're REALLY smart, you might even
> write an efficient one), but then how's anyone else going to use
> your files?

Well, you have two choices:

	1. You bind the ISAM interface into your application and
	   ship binaries. You don't document it, and hope that you
	   sell enough packages that you have a cpative market for
	   the next 10 years.

	2. You document the ISAM interface, ship libraries or source
	   to the library, and provide shell commands to hook your
	   package into the rest of UNIX.

When Oracle does all three parts of (2) I'll quit badmouthing them.
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