Re: Odd/Even packed numbers.

OK, Neil, I'm not even as much a codger as some of you - what was the issue
with 257 or 260 record lengths - looks very close to 256.

Thanks, esp. as this will tell me how much better off I am today.  ;-)

Vern

At 01:11 AM 11/29/02 -0500, you wrote:

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>

        To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
        Subject:        Re: Odd/Even packed numbers.

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