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Bruce

At 07:51 AM 11/25/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Interesting idea...you could do the same thing with a user index, too!
>--Bruce
>
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>From:  James W. Kilgore[SMTP:qappdsn@ibm.net]
>Sent:  Monday, November 24, 1997 1:15 PM
>To:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject:       Re: SFLINZ (or) SFLCLR
>
>
>
>Bruce Guetzkow wrote:
>
>> And you're right...subfiles are neat!  (If only they could be keyed...)
>
>For what it's worth, you can build an index for a subfile.
>
>Now if the subfile is being loaded in the order you would have indexed it,
you can binary halve it, if not, as you write records to the subfile, also
output entries to an indexed data queue containing the index data and
subfile record number..

The manipulation of user indexes is still limited to MI, isn't it? The
example for using them in the API manual is good, and I have extended it (I
know enough about MI to be dangerous!), but caution signs are mandatory, IMO.

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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