Posted by CJ Llewellyn on 11/11/63 11:19

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:24:07 -0700, gene.ellis wrote:

> I see. If I only need to read in from the insertion point on, then how
> can I select the location for the insertion point. Is this possible?
> Basically jumping to a certain point of a file and delcaring that the
> insertion point.

How do you know where the insertion point is? And how do you know there
isn't another process writing to the file while you are reading it?

You don't!

Unless you have a very good reason for not using databases for data
storeage use one.

You can quite easily generate a ZML file from the contects of a table when
needed.

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