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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Indexing Digital Librarian Targets
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Date: 28 Jan 91 00:25:47 GMT
References: <1991Jan25.165550.24316@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1991Jan25.165550.24316@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> judge@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Peter Judge) writes:
>How come when I try to update the index file for a target in
>Digital Librarian (under v2.0) it doesn't do the job?
>
>The only way I've found to successfully have an updated
>index file is to destroy it and then re-create it.
>
>Am I doing something wrong?

You are not doing anything wrong. The truth is that under 2.0 the
index files have a new, improved structure (they use now b-trees
instead of hash tables). Thus of course the new routines can't update
an old structure. You therefore have to delete the index and create a
new one.

Ronald

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