[xiph-cvs] cvs commit: positron/doc database.html
Stan Seibert
volsung at xiph.org
Mon May 26 20:48:42 PDT 2003
volsung 03/05/26 23:48:42
Modified: doc database.html
Log:
More typos located by Manuel, the grammar/spelling Nazi.
Revision Changes Path
1.8 +7 -6 positron/doc/database.html
Index: database.html
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/positron/doc/database.html,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.7 -r1.8
--- database.html 27 May 2003 02:59:07 -0000 1.7
+++ database.html 27 May 2003 03:48:42 -0000 1.8
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
</dl>
<p>
-Each database can be thought as a collection of records with a fixed
+Each database can be thought of as a collection of records with a fixed
number (greater than or equal to 1) of fields. The first field is the
primary field. Next are zero or more fields called <emph>access
keys</emph>, which are fields whose contents are indexed. All the
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
"Rock") Finally, the access keys are followed by zero or more
<emph>extra info</emph> fields. These fields contain data that does
not need to be indexed, like filenames or file sizes. Some fields may
-also contain a collection of values, called a "bag". This is used in
+also contain a collection of values, called a "bag." This is used in
the audio database to allow one file to be in multiple playlists at
once (i.e. have multiple values in its playlist field). Every
database is required to have a special null record.
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
<emph>SAI</emph> file. Child databases have a MDB and SAI file as
well as a <emph>PAI</emph> file used for reverse lookups. The name of
each of these files will be the name of the database with either a
-".mdb", ".sai", or ".pai" extension. All the files for the root and
+".mdb," ".sai," or ".pai" extension. All the files for the root and
child databases are stored in the same directory. The file layout for
the audio database is:
</p>
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
<dt>Integers</dt><dd>Integers are 16 or 32 bits and also stored in
big-endian byte order.</dd>
- <dt>Pointers</dt><dd>Pointers are 32 bit integers that point to
+ <dt>Pointers</dt><dd>Pointers are 32-bit integers that point to
offsets in a file, rather than memory locations. However, unlike
the pointers most programmers are used to, these pointers point at
16-bit words rather than bytes. So a pointer with value 0 refers to
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
</ul>
<p>
The primary field is always a null-terminated string, and the access
-keys are 32 bit pointers to records in child databases which have only a
+keys are 32-bit pointers to records in child databases which have only a
primary field (also a null-terminated string).
</p>
@@ -182,7 +182,8 @@
recorded from the radio and "Microphone" if it was recorded from the microphone.</td></tr>
<tr><td>6</td><td>Time</td><td>uint32</td><td>Length of track in seconds</td></tr>
<tr><td>7</td><td>Size</td><td>uint32</td><td>Size of track in kilobytes</td></tr>
- <tr><td>8</td><td>Path</td><td>sz</td><td>Path to track on Neuros filesystem. Follows path conventions specified in the Overview. </td></tr>
+ <tr><td>8</td><td>Path</td><td>sz</td><td>Path to track on Neuros filesystem.
+ Follows path conventions specified in the Overview. </td></tr>
</table>
<h4 id="pcaudio">pcaudio</h4>
<p><p>--- >8 ----
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