Re: EU Database

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You could try flagging a record as deleted instead of really deleting it.
The real deletion wuld occur during some "archiving" or "compaction"
process. Then when reading a record, you just check its flag and pretend it
is gone if the delete flag is on.

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Walters" <gwalters at sc.rr.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: EU Database


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> On 2nd thought if the pointers were not collapsed then the 'readnext' and
> 'readprev' would run into a hole. So it seems we need a better way to
wander
> through a file. I'm open to any thoughts on how to deal with this.
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> ...george
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