> For the "official" release I would like to suggest something a little
> easier to maintain... why not create a small set of routines to read &
> write the basic data types to & from a file stream.  The might look like this:

This might be a naive question, but why is the index file kept in a
binary format?
Wouldn't it be easier (and more portable) to keep the index file in a
ASCII format?

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