RE: Variable length fields

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / James H H Lampert
>
> Personally, though, I find it hard to believe that the VARLEN space in a
> file NEVER gets garbage-collected or burped. After all, Java
> garbage-collects its heap rather frequently, on much less efficient boxes,
> and what is the VARLEN space but a heap that just happens to reside on a
> disk, instead of in memory? Then, too, the hard drives of DOS boxes,
> Win-Doze boxes, (presumably) Linux boxes, and Macintoshes get defragged
> every day, and what is that, but a variation on garbage collection and
> file-burping?

I already deleted the message that mentioned that the allocation never goes
down, regardless of reorg or not.  But I wonder, what if you did a CRTDUPOBJ
on the file using DATA(*NO), then used CPYF to populate the new file from
the original.  A test for another day.

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