On 1 Feb 1999 19:52:11 GMT, [log in to unmask] (Walter Murray) wrote:


>
>Just curious.  Rather than compile with the ANSI74 entry point or
>the STAT74 control option, to get around the error, why not correct
>the error by fixing the program to correctly describe the file?
>

Maybe it's of an unknown record length until run-time. I wrote a
program that unloaded IMAGE datasets into flat files .... it used
DBINFO calls to decide how big to :BUILD the output record, but the
output record in the FD was set to the maximum size, so I almost
always got this error. The ANSI74 entry point is the way to go.

That may not be why this other fellow is doing it, but that's what I
needed it for. :)
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