Re: data access functions
Dror Feitelson (feit@cs.huji.ac.il)
Sun, 16 Mar 1997 12:30:56 +0200
back to basics: yes, filetypes are ment to be used to describe how the file is
divided among processes. a special case is block partitioning: of two
processes, one gets teh first half, the other the second half. so the file
type is a hugh pieace of (typed) data, followed or preceded by a hugh hole ---
and you certainly may want to access it in parts. why is this insane?
-- Dror