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Bradley V. Stone wrote:
I've always read/chained/setll, etc on the file name, now moreso because of
the %EOF %FOUND, etc bifs that I also qualify with the filename.
I like the idea of input operations being based on the file name for
this reason.
On the other hand, one I can also think of a reason that reading the
record format might be preferable. If the EXTFILE keyword is used on the
F-spec there is a chance that reading based on the file name could be
misleading:
FFILEA IF E K DISK EXTFILE(readFrom) USROPN
...
/free
readFrom = 'FILEB';
read FILEA;
/end-free
I'm not entirely convinced that either way is better, but it seems that
"read a file, write a record" is more standard.
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