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@@ -3553,7 +3553,7 @@ raw-flags -- more country flags, all .gif files
@item
support -- various files for generating texinfo/docbook documentation
@item
-to-be-included... -- an empty subdirectory
+to-be-included... -- contains a MySQL-for-dummies file
@item
translations -- some Portuguese myodbc documentation
@end itemize
@@ -3609,7 +3609,11 @@ produces) have files with similar names and functions. Thus, this
(for the MyISAM table handler). Such duplicates have been marked with
an "*" in the following list. For example, you will find that
\heap\hp_extra.c has a close equivalent in the myisam directory
-(\myisam\mi_extra.c) with the same descriptive comment.
+(\myisam\mi_extra.c) with the same descriptive comment. (Some of the
+differences arise because HEAP has different structures. HEAP does not
+need to use the sort of B-tree indexing that ISAM and MyISAM use; instead
+there is a hash index. Most importantly, HEAP is entirely in memory.
+File-I/O routines lose some of their vitality in such a context.)
@*@*
@itemize