#: 4236 S10/Tandy CoCo
    10-Jun-90  20:20:35
Sb: #4233-#database
Fm: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335
To: PHIL SCHERER 71211,2545 (X)

It will be released commercially.  I've spent a lot of time on the key handler
routines, and would like to get some of that back.  As with the Login Pkg, the
main core of it will be kept to myself but the outer layer/user interfaces will
become available (in C of course).  Meaning that you'll have to buy the package
to use it, but I'll be distrubuting 'extras' across the many networks so that
improvements will be available w/o charge.

Oh, and those key handler routines 1) use OS9's inherent record locking and 2)
are faster than ISAM, DBIII, and others...  I developed my own key storage
format which allows lookup of an entire record keyed by say last/first name in
about 6 disk reads or less for a file as big as about half a million records.

Gimme a month to get some other stuff out of the way.

StG

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