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From: fmayhar@hermes.ladc.bull.com (Frank Mayhar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: What constitutes a good OS?
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.121400@hermes.ladc.bull.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 17:14:00 GMT
References: <5258@auspex.auspex.com> <41772@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <5293@auspex.auspex.com> <1991Jan16.201253.3869@kithrup.COM>
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In article <1991Jan16.201253.3869@kithrup.COM>, sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
|> In article <5293@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
|> >>The mouse is clearly record oriented, in that reading
|> >>half a `record' tells you nothing.
|> 
|> Yes, and that's why records in files are bad.  Thanks for pointing that out.

Huh???  You apparently read something into that statement that I didn't
see.  Care to elaborate?  "Reading half a record" depends on the application
in question.  I can imagine many cases where some applications need entire
records, and others (using the same file) get by fine with only a part of
the record.  In fact, I do this myself occasionally.
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