Thus it was written in the epistle of Johnson, Tracy,
> So, what is the difference between a broken BACKWARD chain
> and a broken FORWARD chain?

Which of the pointers is wrong, I would think.  Each "link" in then chain has a
pointer to the record before it and the record after it.  In this case, the
one point to the "before" record is messed up.

Ted
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