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Re: Can I build a Logical file over a physical file in QS36F?

William,

At 8/12/01 03:25 PM -0500, you wrote:
>Also remember that s/36 files don't allow for a "hard delete."  (You can't
>even use a delete database trigger with them!)  You typically have to set a
>status field to "D" and copy the file to get rid of unwanted records.  Yuck!

  I don't know where you got the idea that you can't "hard delete" a /36 
record, but you most certainly can, as long as the file is "delete 
capable", which is usually specified during the creation of the 
file.  There is no DELETe opcode, but you can put it on the O spec:

OFILE    EDEL

or

OFILE    DDEL

etc.

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