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

Almost exactly the same phrase I remember also from COBOL classes. Perhaps 
because I regularly "read files/write records" I never experienced this 
situation:

Does anyone have experience with a program that reads by record format name but 
needs to be overridden one day to a different file that has a different format 
name?

Tom Liotta

rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   9. Re: Pros and Cons Of Reading Format Name Or File Name
>      (rob@xxxxxxxxx)
>
>Don't know.  I do remember in my college COBOL class having to repeat out 
>loud:
>"READ A FILE,   WRITE A RECORD"  So, it's pretty well drilled into me.
>
>
>Joe Giusto
>Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>        Subject:        Pros and Cons Of Reading Format Name Or File Name
>
>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?

-- 
Tom Liotta
The PowerTech Group, Inc.
19426 68th Avenue South
Kent, WA 98032
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