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With the publication of the C# strings tutorial last week, I'm now back onto C again and this tutorial will be about files; both text files and random access files. Much of my earlier programming was using random access files, particularly in the postal games area. This was in the first few years of PCs, in the late 80s when databases were just starting to appear but were very expensive so everyone rolled their own file system. I didn't actually write any database applications until late 1997 and that was using Microsoft Access mdb files..

Nowadays of course even tiny applications can use small databases like SQLite, which links all its code into the application so there is much less need for random access files. And yet I believe it's a useful programming technique to know.

Link to What is a Relational Database?

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