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  3. September 2004

RE: Reading/Chaining into a DS, and RNF0202

In this scenario, I would definitely *consider* using the PREFIX keyword on
the file specs as opposed to using the DS technique.

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Tony Carolla
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:37 AM
>
> Well, the only reason I have used them is a slightly broader-based
> reason.  If you have two files, with the same record format, therefore
> the same field names, and therefore the same buffers in your program,
> sometimes you want to read a record from each file, and maintain the
> two sets of data, for comparisons, or anything else.  READing,
> CHAINing, etc. to a DS preserves the contents of the file buffer.  I
> am certain there are more reasons that this.  Anybody?

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