--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > No. > Binary files with a fixed record length and layout. > > Thank you. > > <<snip>> > > >>Need a TDataset component to handle sequential files in Delphi 5 <<snip>> >
You can always take the easy way out Define a record structure that matches your datasource then define a file as File of Type TRecord. Then you can read, write and edit the file one record at a time. I seem to remember that Delphi puts a 2 byte header on Files of TRecord so you might need to read your file into empty records and then write thme to a File of TRecord. Make a few simple primitives (move, read, write) and then you can easily map your file to a descendant of TDataSet and then you can use it from high level functions Mick
