"Brian Donaldson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:2ZCdndfgZ7B4fR_cRVn-iA@fidnet.com... > When a record is deleted from a KSAMXL file how does the file system > flag this record as being (logically) deleted? -- low-values in the 1st > two bytes of the record, asterisks....?? > > Inquiring minds want to know... > > TIA, > Brian Donaldson. > ISTR that in CM KSAM it wrote hex FFFF in the first two bytes of the record. I don't know about KSAMXL, I've always used the ;REUSE option and/or let the file system worry about it for KSAMXL. Regards -- Mark Undrill Affirm Limited * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *