I'm sure others might offer a more "scientific" explanation, but in short
it means move the record pointer to the 1st record in order to perform
(usually) a serial read of all records.

By the way, I seem to remember reading somewhere that a serial read of a
master dataset is in fact a "simulated" serial read. IOW, a pointer
positioning algorithm kicks in, which then gets each entry as "if" they
where being read serially. I have a vague recollection that the document?
advised against serially reading a master as there was a possibility of not
actually reading all entries ...
I'm not that old, yet memory "is" starting to fail ...

Costas Anastassiades,
Athens-Greece

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From:   John W Pickering[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   ÐÝìðôç, 7 ÌáÀïõ 1998 1:32 ðì
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        FW: rewind datasets...part 2.

>NEVER MIND! --- I found out what was wrong. It was my bent code. :-) Ron
in
>California knows about bent code. Sorry for the msg....

Just out of curiosity, what does "rewind a dataset" mean anyway ??

JWP