Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!priapus.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!2110f967!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D28B940.6B12@earthlink.net> From: Joe Wright Reply-To: joewwright@earthlink.net Organization: Wright Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.03Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.databases.object,comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: What is a FLAT FILE ? References: <73918e96.0206302233.36739e55@posting.google.com> <03nU8.53$0U1.6381@petpeeve.ziplink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 7 Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 21:56:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 166.90.29.54 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1026078960 166.90.29.54 (Sun, 07 Jul 2002 14:56:00 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 14:56:00 PDT Xref: easynews comp.databases:94455 comp.databases.object:23173 comp.databases.theory:21663 X-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 14:53:35 MST (news.easynews.com) Flat Files are simply those seen to be two-dimensional tables. y rows of x fields for example. I wonder that a row could have a type. A field within a row certainly has a type, but a row? -- Joe Wright mailto:joewwright@earthlink.net "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." --- Albert Einstein ---