Re: trailing spaces and compound keys and tabs

[Ann W. Harrison]

Kevin,
> 
> Embedding the tab character in this sequence works just fine and does 
> sort correctly.
> 
> Incidentally, the run size is 6 bytes which includes the end-of-segment 
> byte.  So we each RUN contains 5 bytes of the key (not 4), unless it is 
> the last RUN.

Ah.  Sorry.  Jim used that trick on the last three databases with
different run sizes ... I should have looked rather than guessing.


Best,

Ann
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