"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

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