I have to deal with fixed length records an awful lot. Yes, they have advantages, but frankly IMO their limitations outweigh them. They scale poorly (actually, by definition, not at all) and are usually wasteful of space. And to boot are often mandated by inferior programmers who think they are making their lives easy but are in fact making them more complicated. (Hows this: fixed length records on variable length lines, with 70% wasted space. Blech.)

Anyway, never mind me, just grumbling... :-)


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demerphq

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: File I/O by demerphq
in thread File I/O by ced4dad

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