At 10:48 AM 4/14/99 +0100, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
>Have just done a little experiment with this. The results are interesting
enough
>to share with the list I think. I wrote a program to...
>
...snip...
>
>The temp file is built OK
>The record is written OK
>The first close purges the file!!
>
>I wonder why the file is not left in the temporary namespace?
>

The file is left in the same domain that it existed in, just prior to
opening. For a "NEW" file
this is the "I_DONT_REALLY_EXIST_DOMAIN", and that is where it is left.
A file equation with the ;TEMP parameter would help out here. Of course, you
may lose
the Posix side of things, I don't know.....
Tony