Re: file access problem.....

[Scott.Lindstrom@xxxxxxxxxx]

>You're right that you can add more than one record with the same key
because it's >non-unique.
>But, using CHAIN to access your file, you will always get the first record
added >because it's relative record number is lower - records in a keyed
physical file are >"sorted" by the relative record number within each key
value.

But if you reuse deleted records, then I imagine this may not be the case?

Scott Lindstrom
Zenith Electronics


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