Re: Pros and Cons Of Reading Format Name Or File Name

My personal preference is to use file names.

Scott Mildenberger

--- Joe Giusto <jgiusto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I understand the need to read format names when you have
> multiple record
> formats in a file and only want one or the other, but what if
> any advantages
> are there to always reading record format names.  IMHO it is
> more confusing
> to have a program full of reads to format names as they can
> vary so much
> from the file names (in our case I am referring to logicals
> here).  And why
> do we need to always write to record format names instead of
> file names even
> when there is only one record format in the file?
> 
> I would be interested to see what others are doing (reading
> formats or file
> names) and opinions on this which is better.



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