In article <[log in to unmask]>, Ron Burnett
<[log in to unmask]> writes

(snip file stuff)

>  You do indeed
>need to change that to 'rec=-2' as a minimum, otherwise
>the file system will report that it can't write to the
>output file.  Curious that .... why can you successfully
>build a file with rec=-1 if you can't write to it?

Why would you necessarily want to write to a file? :-)

But seriously, we have used such files as intra-system semaphores, so
one jobstream could 'talk' to another. Only the presence/absence of such
files was tested; their content was irrelevant. So naturally, we wanted
them to be as small as possible, and not to be writable.... And lo and
behold, HP came up trumps!
--
Roy Brown               Phone : (01684) 291710     Fax : (01684) 291712
Affirm Ltd              Email : [log in to unmask]
The Great Barn, Mill St 'Have nothing on your systems that you do not
TEWKESBURY GL20 5SB (UK) know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'