FILEMAN.E
Well, sad to say I was ill all weekend, so FILEMAN.E remains unchanged. At
this point, I am ready to begin re-writing it as per many of the suggestions
proposed. The biggest change will be adding 1 extra byte to the length of
each record, to manage deleted records. I checked into putting an ASCII 26
into the header of a file, but the only program which could not detect that
there was more data in the file was the 'type' command in DOS, so I'm going
to leave that be for now.
I am adding versioning into the header, just in case. At this point, I
think that the file format is set in stone now, but those are famous last
words, so I'm using versioning anyway.
The next update is a minor revision, so I won't be doing anything fancy like
record-locking or indexing yet. This is mostly to lock in a file format
that everyone is happy with, so I can convert my personal programs to
FILEMAN, and write a few demos.
If anyone has any last minute thoughts or comments, please let me know, as
I should be converting the code this evening.
Thanks,
Brian Jackson
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