Re: Help on Program

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 06-29-92 (08:32)             Number: 1632
From: FRANCOIS ROY                 Refer#: NONE
  To: BILL SPICER                   Recvd: NO  
Subj: Re: Help on Program            Conf: (2) Quik_Bas

 BS> It would be great if there were a way to read from the end of the file
 BS> to the beginning.

 If you kept a companion index file, reading in reverse order would be easy:
 you would store the value 1 + LOF(1) in the index file just before writing
 to it (in APPEND mode).  When reading back, you would start from the end of
 the index file and SEEK #1, using the index just read.  It is easy to read
 the index file in reverse order, since all entries would have the same
 length and therefore the file could be opened for RANDOM.

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