Random832 <random832(a)fastmail.com> wrote:
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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