On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 08:58:19PM -0400, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote: > The [Pick][] operating system (devoted to business data processing on > minicomputers, mostly) is the only thing I know of that used such a thing in > its normal file format: a Pick "file" is like a Unix "directory", containing > "records" that are like Unix "files". Within each "record" (in 1970s versions > of Pick, limited to 32K) "items" are separated by "item marks" (character > 255); > each item consists of "attributes" separated by "attribute marks" (character > 254), and so on with "values" (253) and "subvalues" (252).
Nitpicky correction: a record is an item, not a collection of items. Regret the error. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
