Mpex (third party extension) to MPE allows the FLIMIT to be amended.
Given the speed it amended large files,  I guess it was tweaking the
filelabel.



-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Olav Kappert
Sent: 19 June 2012 18:03
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Cobol: Cobol and HPFOPEN

John:

It is amazing what one little forgotten detail may involve.  I believe
that the only way then is to use one of the MPE intrinsics to determine
all the characteristics of the file in question and do a command build
after parsing the information.

Olav.

John Pollard wrote:

>I like the idea, but I forgot to mention one other aspect of my
project.
>
>At the end of the day (after I get the opens/reads/writes working), I
do want to be able to alter the capacity of the output file.
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