Subj : ISAM variable-length demark?
To   : Mike Luther
From : David Noon
Date : Tue Mar 11 2003 04:37 pm

Hi Mike,

Replying to a message of Mike Luther to All:

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ML> What record demark character (group) would be a good choice to use to
ML> break up the record parade so that I can brute force the file to
ML> reconstruct the keys?

Good ISAM systems do not use demarcation characters to delimit records. If the
records can be varying length they use a length prefix, typically a 16-bit or
32-bit binary integer. I would recommend same.

Regards

Dave
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