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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: CRC in Ada?
Date: 1997/03/07
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References: <1997Mar2.220652@nova.wright.edu> <1997Mar6.114441.1@eisner>
 <E6n850.3Ct@world.std.com> <1997Mar7.090814.1@eisner>
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Date: 1997-03-07T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <1997Mar7.090814.1@eisner>,
Larry Kilgallen <kilgallen@eisner.decus.org> wrote:
>Why should finding a record with particular contents in the middle of
>a file take a long time?  There are books about how to write indexed
>file systems, but some operating systems skipped that part of what I
>am accustomed to relying upon. ...

Good point, I admit.

>have been faced with a different set of projects than you, but I have
>my own list of things that "any environment ought to do properly" such
>as file versioning :-).

That one's on my list, too.  :-)

- Bob