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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: B-Tree Manager (was: Config File Resource Blues)
Message-ID: <7960@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 12 Jul 89 06:18:59 GMT
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Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <1169@intercon.UUCP> amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker) writes:
>I'm very glad that Apple is putting a standard, supported B-tree manager
>into System 7.0.  It's about time!

Do you know much about this?  I haven't been able to find anything very
specific.  A source at Apple says that it's not a new manager, it's
just the documentation of some traps (perhaps HFSDispatch based?) that
have been around since HFS was introduced.  But this has not been
confirmed.

If it *is* just the routines used to maintain the directory B-trees,
then how general are those routines for other database applications?

Is there a network interface for remote database access using this
B-tree layer for local support on the server?

What does the programming interface look like?

And so on, and so on....  Any information you have will be
appreciated.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com
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