Thanks to all for your responses.  It was much easier than I was
anticipating!  Hurray for MPE!

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Rosenblatt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 6:59 AM
To: Carl McNamee; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Build command question


Carl McNamee asked:
>When using the BUILD command to build a fixed length flat file is there a
>way to let the system assign the most efficient blocking factor
>automatically?

Yes, by skipping the Blocking parameter the machine will assign its idea of
the best blocking factor. Her is an example:
:build filea;rec=-10,,f,ascii;disc=100  or build
fileb;rec=10,,f,binary;disc=100

I hope this helps.