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QUERY/V Reference Manual

FILE DATA 

Each record in the file holds an IMAGE entry that qualified from a FIND
or MULTIFIND retrieval.  The number of records in the file is the same as
the number of entries retrieved and the size of each record is the same
as the size of the retrieved entry.  In a FIND, the records are the size
of the entries in a single data set.  In a MULTIFIND, the records are the
size of the entries in a compound data set.  A compound data set entry is
the combined size of the entries in the single data sets of which it is
comprised (specified in the JOIN command).

The data in the file is stored in the same form as the data in the IMAGE
data base.  Numeric data is stored in binary form and must be converted
to ASCII before it can be displayed.

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