In <[email protected]>, on
06/10/2013
at 04:02 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>Is uniform lengths a requirement?
No.
>Do any applications rely on being able to calculate a cylinder and
>track address within a VBS data set?
I hope not; if it does, it's broken.
>Does this mean one can't append (MOD) to a VBS data set?
No.
>What happens if after writing the last segment of a logical record
>the block is not filled up to BLKSIZE but fewer bytes are
>available than the length of a SDW?
Short block.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
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(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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