AT&T 6300 Programmer's Manual page 112

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Disk File Handling

RANDOM ACCESS FILES

Creating and accessing random access files

requires more program steps than with sequen-

tial files, but there are advantages to using ran-

dom access files. One advantage is that random

access files require less room on the disk,

because GWBASIC stores them in a packed

binary format. (A sequential file is stored as a

series of ASCII characters.)

The biggest advantage to random access files is

that data can be accessed at random, i.e.,

anywhere on the disk. It is not necessary to

read through all the information on disk with

random access files, as with sequential files.

This is possible because the information is

stored and accessed in distinct units called

records and each record is numbered.

The statements and functions that are used

with random access files are:

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