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Re: RCVF in CL

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:18 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong but it's ok to read the last record, and still
reposition? But the problem occurs when you try to read past the last
record and get the EOF message?

That would be consistent with John McKee's suggestion to keep a
sentinel record at the end (so when you reach it, you know you've read
all the "real" records, but the file status is still not EOF).

John Y.

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