Re: OPNQRYF and shared ODP

I might consider something like this: 

A keyed COMMENTS file; two keys.  

Key1 = the source document type  (P.O., Sales, etc.), and 
Key2 = the document number. 

Key 1 might be two or three alpha characters and key 2 would need to be as
long or longer than the longest document number.  Probably it would need
to be an alpha field.

Now each comment could be tied to a document.  Where a comment links to
several documents I would probably have two, three, or how ever many
copies of the whole record in the comment file.  Extra copies of a few
comments will probably be a whole lot easier to progam, administer, and
store than creating a dozen or more logicals.

Or did I miss the whole point of the problem?
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