I have just finished teaching myself the basics of C and I am trying to
write a simple database program for DOS. In order to store the data so it
can easily be searched and sorted, I'm using linked lists for data
referencing.
        The problem I have is this, what is the best method of saving the
data to disk and/or reading it. I'm pretty sure that it isn't a good idea
to save the pointer info on the disk and then reload it because DOS
mightn't allocate it the same space. Should I save each item of the
structure individually or should I create a new structure just for storing
the info on the disk or what?
        In case it helps, this is the structure I am using:

struct book{
        char title[40];
        char author[25];
        int year;
        char type_1;
        char type_2;
        struct book *next;
}

        Not too complicated but sufficient to challenge my programming 
skills ;)

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks in advance,
        
Geoff.

        

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