February 2014
Beginner
1248 pages
62h 25m
English
A file is a group of related records. [Note: More generally, a file contains arbitrary data in arbitrary formats. In some operating systems, a file is viewed simply as a sequence of bytes—any organization of the bytes in a file, such as organizing the data into records, is a view created by the application programmer. You’ll see how to do that in Chapter 15.] It’s not unusual for an organization to have many files, some containing billions, or even trillions, of characters of information.
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