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Author Re: Mainframers ... according to RW
LX-i

2004-11-16, 8:55 pm

Howard Brazee wrote:
> On 15-Nov-2004, LX-i <lxi0007@netscape.net> wrote:
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> I've never changed from a file to a database without a re-write. And I have
> changed a lot of file-access programs to database access programs. I suppose
> when you have a database pretending to be a keyed file this will work. And
> databases are easier to come by on PCs than ISAM systems. But when I've
> switched to databases it has been for other reasons than this.


True, it doesn't mean you're "doomed" if you don't put reads in a
paragraph by themselves. That's just one of the reasons folks give for
doing it that way.


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