From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: Diffrence between a sequential binairies file and direct binairies file
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:00:50 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-09-09T10:00:50+00:00 [thread overview]
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Dominic D'Apice <dapiced@sympatico.ca> wrote:
: Can someone can explain what is the main difference between a sequential
: binairies file and direct binairies file ?
If I understand your question correctly, one difference is the
way of access to the elements making up the file. With sequential
files you can read one element after the other, if the file has
been opend with mode In_File. If it has been opened with mode
Out_File, you can write one element after the other.
With direct access files, you can, for example, choose which
element you want to read, directly, without having to read the
sequence of elements before this element. There is more information
about this the reference manual, see A.8.
-- Georg
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2002-09-07 15:32 ` Diffrence between a sequential binairies file and direct binairies file Nick Roberts
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