This index type of file would really be the same a a PACKAGE file in an
offering from the IBM Download site, at least some of the offerings.
The Package file did everything that you both are referring to plus a
little extra. I never knew if there was a special tool to help generate
a PACKAGE file. It's basically output of "listfile fn ft fm (da" with
extra stuff in it such as comments and heading info with author, date, etc.
Jim
Rob van der Heij wrote:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Jeff Gribbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd like to propose that, rather than introducing a new record-type, it
would be more friendly to introduce a dummy file, placed last in the
archive, which contains all the desired tracking information. In addition
to preserving backward-compatibility, this solution would be more amenable
to future, "improvements" as space would be, effectively, unlimited.
When I was looking at adding an index, the idea was indeed to make it
a dummy file at the end. You can overwrite that when you add files to
the archive, and the time stamp of the dummy file would correspond to
the last update of the archive. But never had time to write the
wrapper to maintain that index.
Part of that code is here now:
http://rvdheij.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/listing-the-contents-of-vmarc/
-Rob
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