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Annotation of 43BSD/contrib/notes/src/doc.h, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: /*
        !             2:  * File layouts for notesfiles:
        !             3:  * 
        !             4:  * There are four files:
        !             5:  * 
        !             6:  *     text
        !             7:  *             Contains a free pointer and all main note texts.  A debug
        !             8:  *             aid is the note number, response number, and length assoc'd
        !             9:  *             with each "page" stored.
        !            10:  * 
        !            11:  *     resp.indx
        !            12:  *             Contains blocks of response pointers.
        !            13:  * 
        !            14:  *     note.indx
        !            15:  *             Contains a) description of notesfile in general
        !            16:  *                      b) all the note "headers" with titles and dates
        !            17:  *                         and what not.
        !            18:  * 
        !            19:  *     access
        !            20:  *             Contains the permission tables for the notefile
        !            21:  * 
        !            22:  * General layout:
        !            23:  * 
        !            24:  *     text:    daddr_f (free pointer)
        !            25:  *
        !            26:  *             txthead_f
        !            27:  *             char text[];    <-- length determined by txthead_f
        !            28:  *
        !            29:  *             txthead_f;
        !            30:  *             char text[];
        !            31:  * 
        !            32:  *     resp.indx: int  (free pointer to next empty slot -- init 0)
        !            33:  *             resp_f
        !            34:  *             resp_f
        !            35:  *             ... resp_f * <--- these are pointed to by indexes in the
        !            36:  *                                     note.indx file below.  Each is
        !            37:  *                                     autonomous, though they might
        !            38:  *                                     link to each other for more than
        !            39:  *                                     25 responses to a note.
        !            40:  * 
        !            41:  * 
        !            42:  *     note.indx: descr_f  (describes whole notesfile plus has some
        !            43:  *                             ongoing pointers and dates)
        !            44:  *             note_f
        !            45:  *             note_f
        !            46:  *             ... note_f * <---- these are indexed by note number.  They
        !            47:  *                             reference the resp_f's above by "response
        !            48:  *                             number" which must be *'d by sizeof resp_f.
        !            49:  *
        !            50:  *     access :
        !            51:  *             perm_f
        !            52:  *             perm_f  <--- contains NPERMS copies of this structure.
        !            53:  *                     Each one gives a user, group or system. They
        !            54:  *                     are sorted in order of precedence, so the first
        !            55:  *                     one encountered is the correct one to give to
        !            56:  *                     the user. There should not be MORE then NPERMS
        !            57:  *                     entries in the table!
        !            58:  *
        !            59:  */

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