Brian wrote:
>To all who replied, thank you.
>
>Yes, I tried the FOPEN, FWRITE, FCLOSE scenario.
>
>In my Cobol mainline I FOPENed the file, gave me the file
>number which I passed to the Pascal sub to do the FWRITE. The
>FWRITE failed with CC > zeroes (CCG).
>
>I tried to write an 80 byte char field to this file and the
>FWRITE failed.
>
>Couldn't figure out why as the opened file is larger than 80 bytes.
>
>[snipped]

>I did a LISTFTEMP,2 after the program ran to see how many
>records were written to the file and as you can see none were
>written at all: listftemp,2
>
>TEMPORARY FILES FOR MGR.E3K,PUB
>
>ACCOUNT=  E3K         GROUP=  PUB
>
>FILENAME  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----
>                  SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX
>
>PASC001          7060B  FA           0          0   1    0  0  * (TEMP)

If you give your file more LIMIT than '0' you can probably write records
into it :-)

Notice the text of the CCG in the Intrinsic Manual...that gives you
your clue.

duane

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