On Sun, May 05, 2002, Bill Janssen wrote:

> You're saying that the Plucker UID value stored inside the data record
> header (the first two bytes of the record) have values other than
> those expected by the links?  Or are you saying that the UID values of
> the records in the documents are simply not monotonically increasing?

Both ;-) The values inside the records are not increasing and neither
do they have the values expected by the links. However, I guess the
former problem is caused by the latter...

> There's no requirement in the DB format spec that the UIDs of records
> physically laid out later than other records must also have higher UID
> values.  Do we need to add this requirement?

Definitely, since that has been a requirement for a couple of years...

> Better point me at this book, too, so that I can reproduce the problem.

http://www.baen.com/library/067157793X/067157793X.htm , but I guess any
large book would go wrong often enough for it to be noticed...

/Mike

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