In the building of the ksam/xl file, you can add an option ";reuse".  This
will allow the system to reuse any space left by deleted records.

Hope this helps.

Ron Horner
Horner Consulting


-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Jay Willis
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:58 AM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] Removing deleted recs from KSAM/xl file

Hello,

I normally do an mpex altfile to increase the flimit of a ksam file when the
eof approaches the flimit. I did this this morning to a ksam file, but then
I started thinking that there must be a better way of removing deleted
records than by just increasing the flimit each time the file starts to fill
up.

Can anyone offer me a simple way of removing deleted records from a ksam/xl
file without increasing its flimit? Would renaming the file twice, the 2nd
time to its original name, do it?

Thanks,
Jay

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