Glossary:

File I/O: Meaning Input and Output - to and from the file system - File I/O is the heart of saving data permanently to the hard disk and later retrieving it. There are many features of file I/O including the command set that opens and closes files as discussed in this article, the variety of input commands and output commands - different commands are used for different types of I/O (see Random and Binary). There are commands to locate specific records and functions to return data about open files as well as all files in the file system. File I/O covers a broad category of application from simple files for holding program settings to databases. There are several articles that cover this topic in greater detail in the LB Newsletter.

Random and Binary Files - a special form of files with set record lengths, these files can form the building blocks to a basic database system. Liberty Basic allows the programmer to declare a data structure and length for a set of data elemen