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<concept id="GUID-2F987147-1435-55F1-B61C-8413C4AD8424" xml:lang="en"><title>Direct
File Store Structure</title><shortdesc>Describes the structure of the file used as a Direct File Store.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
<p>The general structure of a direct file store, from the point of view of
the physical file containing the store, is illustrated below.</p>
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<p>The header is the content of the descriptor returned by the <codeph>Des()</codeph> member
function of <codeph>TCheckedUid</codeph>; this contains the file store type
and checksum; the length of the data is the size of a <codeph>TCheckedUid</codeph> object.
Note that <codeph>TCheckedUid</codeph> is not part of the public API.</p>
<p>The header is followed by the root stream ID. As the value of a stream
ID is also the offset of that stream from the start of the host, this gives
the offset of the root stream.</p>
<p>The root stream ID is followed by all the streams; the root stream is the
last stream.</p>
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