Evan writes:
> After performing an ffindbykey() function, I would like to be able to
> retrieve the relative record number.  You can use ffileinfo(9,recnum) to
> retrieve the physical record number, but I really do want to retrieve
> the relative record number.

Why?  The value returned by FFILEINFO 9 would appear to be the
chronological pointer ... which is usable in a call to FPOINT and
FREADDIR and FWRITEDIR.

Chronological records numbers are used by:
   FREADC, FPOINT, FREADDIR, FWRITEDIR

Logical record numbers are used by:
   FREAD (i.e., reads in logical sequence), FFINDN, FWRITE.

It sure would have been nice if the original KSAM authors/documenters
hadn't called the sorted-order record numbers "logical" (thereby confusing
them with the file system "logical" record numbers!)

There are other nomenclature problems that I'm discussing with HP offline.

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