If you set the $CONTROL MAP option, you get the length of the record in hex.
Just use the
:CALC command to convert to decimal and you can find out the physical record
size.

Mark Wilkinson.
Sony Pictures Entertainment.





"Schlosser, Robert (Contractor)" <[log in to unmask]> on 01/02/99 16:49:59

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Joe:

        You are thinking of things like illegal ASCII digits and such. The error
you are receiving indicates that the FD in the program does not match the
physical file on disk. The 74 entry point would allow such discrepancies, the 85
entry point does not. Do a quick look at the code, then do a listf ,2 on your
file and you should find the problem.

Robert Schlosser