"Tom Emerson" wrote:

[snip]

> Seriously, though, I'm of
> the persuasion that, put simply, a "standard" file is one in which most,
if
> not all, of the bits in the FOPTIONS/AOPTIONS word are zeros (the bits
that
> control read vs. write/append; temp vs. perm; and so on don't count) --
HP's
> documentation, however, actually does have a definition for a "standard"
> file.

Ain't semantics grand!

In another context, an RIO file might be referred to as a "standard" file,
since it's one of the three file structures specified by the COBOL standard
(sequential, relative, and indexed).

Walter

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