Re: Odd/Even packed numbers.

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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