Managing Symbol Tables on Floppy Disk

I apologize if this question may sound dull or unintelligent to you guys.
But are there any papers in existance that explain how to maintain a
symbol table on a floppy disk; stuff like data structures, hashing ?,
lookup, insertion etc. Any information or pointers to information will
be greatly appreciated.


Thankyou,


Cedric A. Ramsey


E-mail: ramsey@ncoast.ORG
[Content addressed structures in external storage are usually called data
bases. There are lots of disk-based structures for lookup by name; see
Knuth volume 3 for a somewhat dated but still useful introduction. Also,
I'd be interested to hear what kind of environment is forcing your symbol
table onto a disk. Wouldn't it be easier to spend $70 and get another
megabyte of RAM? -John]
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