>The documentation says.... Hmm, I'm unable to find anything in the OS 3.1
>pre-documentation that specifically describes the sortinfo block. Some
>folks said back in Nov '97 that the documentation suggested that the
>sortinfo block was useless and should be avoided. If so, I can't find that
>statement in the current SDK documentation.
Isn't one issue that the SortInfo block, like the AppInfo block, is
designed to be a FIXED length structure. As I understand it, it wasn't
meant to actually store a table of indices of records, but just some kind
of flags or things which might indicate the order in which the database
was actually sorted.
I emphasize that this is just my understanding, and I'm more than willing
to stand corrected.
As you may (correctly) surmise, I've never used a SortInfo block in any
of my apps.
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