Computerworld

Unix Tip: Reading and Writing with File Descriptors

Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...
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ACCESS Procedure: Creating and Using SAS/ACCESS Descriptor Files

An access descriptor only describes a PC file's format and contents to the SAS System; that is, it is a master description file of the PC file for the SAS System. You cannot use an access descriptor ...
Linux Journal

Kernel Korner - Intro to inotify

John McCutchan and I had been working on inotify for about a year when it was finally merged into Linus' kernel tree and released with kernel version 2.6.13. Although a long struggle, the effort ...
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ADABAS Databases

An ADABAS database consists of three system files: Data Storage, Associator, and Work Storage. The Data Storage system file contains the actual data records for all ADABAS files in a database, in ...