From: Michael Widenius
Date: October 23 2009 9:06pm
Subject: Re: What does "rnd" stand for?
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Hi!

>>>>> "Antony" == Antony T Curtis <Antony> writes:

Antony> On 21 Oct 2009, at 09:38, Jay Pipes wrote:

>> Hi!
>> 
>> OK, so there's a bit of a disagreement as to what "rnd" stands for  
>> in the handler interface.
>> 
>> For instance handler::rnd_pos(), handler::rnd_init(), etc..
>> 
>> There's some disagreement as to whether rnd means "read next data"  
>> or "random" or something in Swedish?  Anyone have an answer?

Antony> I had always thought it was "random" as in "random access".

It was short for random access (has been for 20 years)

Regards,
Monty