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Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6

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"ralph" <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:10:58 +1100, >
>
> There isn't any such thing as a "random access file".

Strange, nearly all of my books on vb6 (many published by Microsoft) explain 
the term 'Random Access File' fully and highlight the differences from a 
sequential access file. Of course, if you want to be picky I agree that in 
the end whatever file you have it will write to disc in the same form 
(manipulation of magnetic fields). At a physical level, therefore, they 
would be the same. But by 'Random Access' it is implicit that this is a way 
of organising the data so that you can go straight to the part of the file 
(the record) where the required data is held, and that the data is organised 
into fields of predetermined length.  Incidentally I do not use 'seek'.  I 
use UDTs to organise the file and in the put and get statements identify the 
required record number.  This has worked in a live accounting system used 
daily for some years and producing Government required financiaal 
statements. 

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Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 dpb <none@non.net> - 2011-02-06 09:10 -0600
  Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 "Henning" <computer_hero@coldmail.com> - 2011-02-08 00:20 +0100
    Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-02-07 18:12 -0600
      Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 "Henning" <computer_hero@coldmail.com> - 2011-02-08 01:27 +0100
  Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 "StrandElectric" <Strand@dummyspit> - 2011-02-07 10:10 +1100
    Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-02-07 21:18 -0600
      Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 "jason@smkzone.com" <jbodine1@yahoo.com> - 2011-02-08 10:06 -0800
    Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-02-06 21:19 -0600
      Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 "StrandElectric" <Strand@dummyspit> - 2011-02-08 12:31 +1100
      Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-02-07 18:31 -0600
      Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2011-02-06 22:29 -0500
      Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 "StrandElectric" <Strand@dummyspit> - 2011-02-08 10:58 +1100
  Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 "StrandElectric" <Strand@dummyspit> - 2011-02-10 05:29 +1100
  Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 "jason@smkzone.com" <jbodine1@yahoo.com> - 2011-02-07 08:33 -0800
    Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 "StrandElectric" <Strand@dummyspit> - 2011-02-08 07:14 +1100
      Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-02-07 15:03 -0600
    Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 dpb <none@non.net> - 2011-02-07 11:47 -0600
    Re: Replacing text in a text file with VB6 Helmut_Meukel <Helmut_Meukel@bn-hof.invalid> - 2011-02-09 12:09 +0100

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