Well,
   I am attempting to get AccuCobol to impliment the random file
   access feature of ACTUAL KEY, only on HP3000.

   The question arrises that when you set your KEY to a record number
   greater than EOF by more than 1, are the skipped records blank
   filled or zero filled.

   This really is a file system question, and apparently only HP3000.

   Just trying to get better understanding of issues.

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Keven Miller   mailto:[log in to unmask]   http://www.exegesys.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Brandt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:41 PM
To: Keven Miller; [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Cobol: can you create a new Fixed Binary file?


This doesn't really answer your question, but for files other than fixed 
ASCII files I will either build the file outside the program and set a file 
equation, or call file intrinsics inside the program instead of using 
standard COBOL I/O.

Is there a reason you can't do these things?

At 02:41 PM 10/9/2003 -0600, Keven Miller wrote:
>Can HPCOBOL create a fixed binary file?
>How do you specify in the source?
>
>Or is it "limited" to ascii files?

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