Re: Odd/Even packed numbers.

[Neil Palmer <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, but you still can end up with additional unnecessary disk accesses
when that happens.

To clarify my point, I actually did see a new programmer create a file
with a record length of 260 once - but the real killer was they had added
a 10 byte "filler" field to the end of what was actually only 250 bytes of
data.  ;-)

...Neil





PaulMmn <PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com>


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I haven't worried about file record lengths (or pack maps, for that
matter) since we converted from the S/360/20/5 to the S/3/15-- which
knew how to span records of strange length across sector boundaries.

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


>True - but I still cringe when I see some new programmer create a new
file
>with a record length like 257 !  ;-)
>
>...Neil