In the case of sequential access contiguous file organizations,describe how records are accessed from files in both fixed andvariable size records.
Answer
Before moving onto the description of how the records areaccessed, one must know the types of records:
i) Fixed sizeRecord: When each record of thefile is of the same number of bytes.
ii) Variablesize Record: When some of the records of thefile are of a different size then it is categorized as variablesize record.
In SequentialAccess Contiguous file organization the records(fixed and variablesize) are accessed as follows:
i) Fixed sizerecord Access: Since the actual size ofthe record is known thus the allocation
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