On 07-20-97  22:58, waiting for 22, Cameron Clark said:
 JC> There has been a proposal for a standardized format for binary files,
 JC> and I believe it was formally placed before the C9X committee, but I
 JC> believe the proposal was placed before the committee after they'd said
 JC> they weren't going to accept more proposals for extensions, so it died
 JC> a'borning, so to speak.
 CC> You mean like sequential,indexed sequential, and so on? If so,
 CC> bad idea - dos systems and the like only have sequential files 
 CC> natively.
Hmm, I don't know about that.  COBOL uses indexed files and they seem to
work fine on my DOS machine.   Probably more effort for the compiler,
but that's what compilers are for, eh?
        Frank
... "How may I be honest with you today?" --Tuvok
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