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   From: thewolery@nospam.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Nobody   
    writes   
   >You are missing the point.  When I said "some sort of physical pointer"   
   >I didn't mean direct file offset: I glossed over this because different   
   >systems implement it differently.  You can't apply your one experience   
   >to a whole class of databases; there is no rule saying a database must   
   >exist in one file.   
      
   Except that in this particular case, what you are thinking of as a file   
   is actually the entire disk as a raw device ...   
      
   Not having any experience of R83 I can't be sure, but I think you'll   
   find "the database is the computer" :-)   
      
   Cheers,   
   Wol   
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