From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 23:29:52 -0500 (EST)
To: Paul W Brannan <brannanp AT musc DOT edu>
Cc: Filipe Custsdio <fmc AT novabase DOT pt>,
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Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems
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I'm an advocate of text files whenever possible, only caution I'd add to
this is that
a data base format checker and repair utility would be nice for especially
the newer users so it could clean up after one of their edits if
necessary.
Actually the structure of apps.dat could be normalized to:
app name,
library number.

Once this was done you'd have the record for an app appear
more than once in apps.dat for each lib it used.
This would eliminate the variable length records in apps.dat and give the
clasic one-to-many
relationship to the data bases.



jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>