Re: Matching Record (Was Need Help)

Well, here it is Old RPG II Programmer's Week...

Allright--- how many of you remember what an ADDROUT file was used for??

=--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com






>John Carr wrote:
>>
>
>> <SNIP SNIP>
>>
>>
>> Without looking, What was Position 45 in the header Spec (HSpec) used for
>> in RPGII?
>Peering through the cob webs I'm comming up with nohalt for unprintable
>characters, but there
>as a little voice saying no, no, it's to allow for inquiry
>interrupt.....but then again.....
>
> ok ok,  How about; How was CORE STORAGE INDEX defined in RPG
>> and what was it's use?
>
>The key value at the beginning of each track of the index portion of a
>file.  The system could narrow down it's search to the nearest track.
>This index was retained in CORE STORAGE when you used to get your
>processor from a CORE house.  It was originally used by the program
>specifying the index (S/34 F spec) then graduated to a system level
>resource automatically calculated and sharable by all programs (S/36
>ocl).
>
>I think the math went something like (key length + 3) * #of tracks =
>storage index size
>
>It's a curse to remember even only half the details of stuff like this.
>Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, in a cold sweat,
>screaming "when will it stop!" =:-o



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