Re: 9/9/99 -- MIDRANGE-L

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 >> From all the discussion I've heard on it, that was a common practice in
COBOL programs as COBOL has no real EOF function (or didn't anyway).

I don't recall any point in history when COBOL did not have an AT END option
(i.e. EOF).  On some systems I have worked with placing a high value (all 9s) in
a dummy record at the end of file was done to allow you to position to
(effective) EOF and read backwards - or is this what you meant by EOF function ?

Either way, it would never finish up as 09/09/99 it would have been 99/99/99.


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