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From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 11:07:41 +0000
Subject: [TUHS] Early non-Unix filesystems?
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Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
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> You also can't seek to a given line number in a file.

I was slightly startled by the coolness of the idea when I found out that
nvi uses Berkeley DB as its storage layer; its recno access method
makes a text file look like a random-access array of strings.

Tony.
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