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From: rtf1@cbnewse.ATT.COM (richard.t.ferber)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Deleting records from TYPED file
Keywords: turbo pascal
Message-ID: <833@cbnewse.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 89 17:31:22 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Hello All,

I am writing a simple database program in Turbo Pascal (version 5) that
uses a TYPED file to store data records. One of the basic operations I
want the program to do is to delete records in the file (along with add,
update, etc.). 

After looking through the standard library I couldn't find a procedure to
do this. I figure I'll have to set up a TempFile and copy all the records
to it except the record to be deleted and them rename it to the original 
file. This doesn't seem optimal to me.

Any advice or suggestions? 


					Rick Ferber
					AT&T Bell Labs