RE: F SPEC to clear a file?

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm going to test it, but I believe in RPGIII and later a file with
OUPUT and OUTPUT/ADD are the same type of open. So the file will not be
cleared when a file is open for "output only".

Bob Cozzi
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Subject: RE: F SPEC to clear a file?


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Jon,
  I always thought the  'O' would append to a file and just prevented me
from updating the existing records, I had no idea it would clear the
file first....

tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Paris [SMTP:Jon.Paris@Partner400.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 2:35 PM
> To:   rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      F SPEC to clear a file?
>
>  >> Is there an option on the F spec line to clear a file.
>
> I must be missing something here because no one else has mentioned
> this, but .... Why don't you simply open the file for output, and then

> close it?  Or alternatively just open output and then if you don't
> write any new records it will be empty - and if you write some ... (it

> won't <grin>)
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
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