Re: NT: son of VMS? (was Re: Portents of VMS death)

From: JF Mezei (jfmezei.spamnot_at_istop.com)
Date: 05/26/03


Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 22:21:51 -0400

Bill Todd wrote:
> I think I'd get rid of RFA mechanisms in indexed files:

Why ?

In the case of all-in-1, RFA allows one to access records with duplicate keys
and also saves a lot of time when you've already looked up one record and have
stored its RFA in a local variable.



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  • Re: RFA string format
    ... ALL-IN 1 makes quite a bit of use of the RFA to access records, ... the RFA is never stored on disk. ... RFAs cannot be trusted to be permanent? ...
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