Contact: N. West, Oxford. Revision History:- ================ 5.01 N. West First version. Titles Files ------------ sdb_multi_file.dat Description ----------- This bank provides the look-up that maps a title bank to a search strategy bank (SDMS) that determines how the bank is distributed across a physical set of database files that correspond to a single logical database. If a bank has no matching entry in this table then all its data is assumed to be in a single DB file. Data Words --------- Data types: B(bit), I, F, D(double), H(hollerith 4 char) Fixed length Database Header. See titles_dbhdr.html Word Mnemonic [symbolic command] Description ---- -------- ------------------------------- KSDMT... 1 I _NW_ENT Number of words in look-up table entry = 4 2 Spare ... .. ... 10 Spare 10 I _LUT_BASE Base address on the look-up table. There now follows the look-up table. It consists a series of KSDMT_NW_ENT word entries. Mnemonics are relative. For example:- KSDMT_LUT_BASE + i*KSDMT_NW_ENT + KSDMT_LUT_BANK_NAME is the address of the Titles bank name for the ith entry (starting at 0) i+1 H _LUT_BANK_NAME Titles bank name i+2 I _LUT_BANK_NUM_MIN Titles bank minimum bank number i+3 I _LUT_BANK_NUM_MAX Titles bank maximum bank number i+4 I _LUT_SDMS_NUM Bank number of the corresponding SDMS
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