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Re: KSAMXL Question/Problem -- Key Info (Continued)
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Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:13:51 -0400
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Robert Mills wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> Why are you using FOPEN and not the Cobol Open? 

I'd guess it's an old-school way of keeping a handle on the MPE filenumber.  COBOL didn't always (IIRC) let you use FD names to supply filenumbers to intrinsics (for one), and manually doing your FOPENs/etc let you pass opened files into and out of COBOL subroutines without the default open/close upon subroutine entry/exit like the old-school required.

Jeff 

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