trodgers@nmsu.edu (Thomas Rodgers) (05/23/91)
I need to know the PRECISE order in which TCOLLECTION.STORE places its fields on the stream. It is my assumption that it doesn't write the items field, since this a pointer to something that would be reconstructed at LOAD time anyway. It is also my assumption, that it writes all of the object's data fields prior to putting any of the actual ITEMS on (via PutItem). Is this the case? if so, how much offset is there from the end of the object ID (where the file pointer is left when Load is called) to the word sized fields containing Count and Delta? Would it be reasonable to assume that they are stored in the same order as the manual shows them defined? I need to construct some other items based on these fields prior to actually loading the stream, and if I know where to find the Count and Delta fields, I could just maintain one copy of them rather than separate counts for my derived object.