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Re: indexed sequential files

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From: Peter van der Linden
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:00
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Christopher Clark  <compudat@cadvision.com> wrote:
>  Actually, there's a book out in bookstores (entitled "Java
>Algorithms", I think), that builds a basic indexed-sequential file
>structure with a B-Tree and Serialization as the data format.  As
>somebody who never gets a clear answer as to what data to store
>initially, I LIKE THIS!


Thanks for the reference.

>  Umm...  Hashtables aren't an ordered storage, which would make the
>sequential part difficult...

Good point.   Maybe define an enumeration on the hastable as well.
Or -- if you restrict to fixed length records -- just read the file
using an input stream.
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From: pvdl@shell15.ba.best.com (Peter van der Linden)
Subject: Re: indexed sequential files
Date: 1998/03/23
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