<s>
In	O
computer	B-General_Concept
science	I-General_Concept
,	O
a	O
storage	B-General_Concept
record	I-General_Concept
is	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
IBM	B-Device
mainframes	I-Device
,	O
a	O
record	O
is	O
a	O
basic	O
unit	O
of	O
device-to-program	O
data	O
transfers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Mainframe	O
files	O
,	O
properly	O
called	O
data	B-Application
sets	I-Application
,	O
are	O
traditionally	O
structured	O
collections	O
of	O
records	O
,	O
as	O
opposed	O
to	O
modern	O
byte	O
stream	O
access	O
files	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
Unix-like	B-Operating_System
systems	I-Operating_System
,	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
programs	O
(	O
for	O
example	O
,	O
awk	B-Application
,	O
join	B-Application
,	O
and	O
sort	B-Application
)	O
are	O
designed	O
to	O
process	O
data	O
consisting	O
of	O
records	O
(	O
called	O
lines	B-General_Concept
)	O
each	O
separated	O
by	O
newlines	O
,	O
where	O
each	O
record	O
may	O
contain	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
fields	O
separated	O
by	O
spaces	O
,	O
commas	O
,	O
or	O
some	O
other	O
character	O
.	O
</s>
