On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe the :TLR record could optionally include a checksum of the entire > file. I might not want to do that for every transaction I do to build a > VMARC file, but when I am finished and it is ready to transfer to > someplace else, I could see doing one last transaction to checksum the > file, put the data in the :TLR record and display the checksum for my > paper records. You could build also VMARC file to contain just the VMARC file (at least logically). The client might do smoke and mirrors to hide that detail from you. I believe VMARC also could handle a non-compressed file. But when we're going to tamper with the format (in a compatible way) I would like to see an index for the VMARC (to avoid sequentially scanning it to retrieve the individual FST's). It probably could live at the end with a pointer from the 1st record like we have for MACLIB. -Rob
