"Dennis Lee Bieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: 8<--------------------------------------
> In the days of paper filing (I actually took Shorthand, and a > Business Machines & Filing course in High School to avoid Phys.Ed.) the > training for things like oriental names was to choose one for "surname". > This is where the real papers would be stored. However, one was also > taught to create cross-reference entries under the other names -- > basically single cards of the form: > > sort, name > see name, sort > > I'll concede I doubt if any common database system is designed to > include that concept <G> This sort of thing reminds me of a parts inventory system that I worked on - many moons ago - it had a replacement list consisting of <old part number> <new part number> - and you had to follow these links through to the bitter end, as it could happen multiple times, avoiding infinite loops as you go - on a "mainframe" with 64 kilobytes of core memory - not a job for recursion... But luckily we had disks - I would hate to have to do this on a tape drive only machine... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
