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:zz: Old Nelson Pubs (was: Re: Ranks & Phyla
>Sorry, I don't have time to get to the library this month. Unless
>it's on-line or you can fax or mail it, I won't be able to look it up.
Yeah, I haven't seen it for a long time either.
Hope to get it on line when back in States
ChrzT
At 06:01 PM 11/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> (Actually, I think it's more like a collection of fields,
>> and therefore a *record*. Sorry if that's staking it
>> too literally.)
>
>I don't see how that is, at least with a convenional interpretation of
>`record'. A record is a list of the various properties of a single thing.
>This is a bunch of things that all have something in common.
>
>> (See my paper, "The Tyranny of the File," Datamation,
>> late eighties ...)
>
>Sorry, I don't have time to get to the library this month. Unless
>it's on-line or you can fax or mail it, I won't be able to look it up.
>
>
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