tedd said:
>   If so, then how does the procedure work if someone 
>   adds, or deletes data?  What happens to the flatfile?

you'd just re-write the file in its new state.


>    I'm more interested in how it works than getting it to work.

i'm more interested in source code that makes it work.
i've shown how to proceed with the resource-fork approach.
gnome, can you give us some routines that make flatfiles work?

-bowerbird