This book provides the conceptual tools to build file structures that can be quickly and efficiently accessed. It teaches good design judgement through an approach that puts the "hands-on" work of constructing and running programs at the center of the learning process. This best-selling book has been thoroughly updated. It includes timely coverage of file structures in a UNIX environement, in addition to a new and substantial appendix on CD-ROM. All former programs in C and Pascal have been updated to ANSI C and Turbo Pascal 6.0.

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Michael J. Folk manages the Scientific Data Technologies Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Urbana. He has been responsible for developing a general purpose scientific data file format called HDF and software for managing data in high-performance, high-volume computing environments. Prior to his work at Illinois, Dr. Folk was a professor of computer science for fifteen years at Oklahoma State and Drake Universities.

Bill Zoellick is currently a partner in and founder of Fastwater LLP, a consultancy focusing on helping companies build effective web businesses. He frequently writes about the issues addressed in Web Engagement and speaks on them at user conferences such as Seybold and Internet World and at various user associations and seminars. He has been a software developer, business owner, executive in a $100 million software company, and, most recently, a management consultant and business analyst.

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