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The West Company maintains a master accounts receivable disk file. Approved applications f...

The West Company maintains a master accounts receivable disk file. Approved applications for new charge accounts are keyed to disk. The resulting file is sorted and processed against the master file.


The current master disk file is strictly sequential. What are some advantages and disadvantages that might accrue from changing the file organization method to either a random or indexed-sequential structure?

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