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#Searching Files Quickly

    16-Oct-91 13:00:33
Sb: #Searching Files Quickly
Fm: Martin Brown 100014,1354
To: Jonathan Zuck (UFI) 76702,1605
Sounds like another one of those wonderful 'learning curve !' 🙂 Yes, I would be extremely grateful for some more information !! The application is actually a corporate phone book. General Indexing is accomplished via indexes along the lines of : Type Record IndexText as String * 3:' First 3 letters of surname Offset As Integer :' Offset in file (A.Txt -> Z.Txt) End Type and then jumping to the offset to start sequential reading ! Many Thanks, /\/\artin. Uk. There is 1 Reply.