Re: Variable length fields

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>. . . I certainly appreciate the help.

That's what the List is here for. Maybe you'll be one of the ones to
explain somebody else's problem next.

Personally, though, I find it hard to believe that the VARLEN space in a
file NEVER gets garbage-collected or burped. After all, Java
garbage-collects its heap rather frequently, on much less efficient boxes,
and what is the VARLEN space but a heap that just happens to reside on a
disk, instead of in memory? Then, too, the hard drives of DOS boxes,
Win-Doze boxes, (presumably) Linux boxes, and Macintoshes get defragged
every day, and what is that, but a variation on garbage collection and
file-burping?

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JHHL