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Physical Record.
A chunk of data that has a specified and constant size in
bytes or that is clearly delimited from other records
by a newline character or sector of a disk or other
means identifiable to a computer program reading the file. For example, a
card-image data file has physical records of 80 bytes
each, by definition. In a file in logical record length
structure, each physical record is the same number of bytes in length as the
"logical record length." See also, Line .
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OCW welcomes 50 million visitors
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Honeybee dances and stock market swings
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Singapore-MIT GAMBIT students win first prize
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Both sides of the Net
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MIT Tech TV relaunches
MIT Tech TV, the video-sharing site for the MIT community, relaunched its site this week with a host of new features to make it more user friendly.
MIT wins prestigious award for Kerberos work
MIT has been awarded the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration in recognition of the Institute's 20 years of work on developing and supporting Kerberos, the world's most widely used authentication system for computer networks.
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