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Gell Mann's Law

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SourceSafe Internals

By: Dave Goodall

Each logical file or project is backed by two files in SourceSafe: a 'log' and 'data' file.

The 'data' file comes in .a. and .b flavors.

'log' and (Project) 'data' files contain references to 'parent' and 'child' 'abcdaaaa' files.

'log' and (Project) 'data' files contain fields pointing at absolute offsets in external control files (such as names.dat)

'log' files contain multiple record types. Some of these are chained together by fields containing absolute offsets to the next or previous record in the chain.

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