Stan writes:
> Re:
>> Oh!  I forgot to mention that in my logging process I do an FCONTROL 2 and
>> FCONTROL 6 to write the record and then update the EOF.  That might explain
>> Stan's results.
>
> Very likely!
>
> Note that FCONTROL 2 can be very expensive...and increases in cost
> with both the size of the file and the size of memory.

Also I believe that the FCONTROL 6 does everything that the FCONTROL 2 does,
so I think you can eliminate some of the overhead by getting rid of the
FCONTROL 2.

G.