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Scott Klement wrote:

OVRDBF only applies to a file when the file is opened. It has no
impact any other time.

<<SNIP>>

Effectively. Not quite so definitively however. The "override to type-of file" commands do have an effect in some other situations. Most notably is for the capability to /extract/ the file definition of\from the overridden-to file name, for example, when an override is in effect for a compile. There may be others [beyond open and extract], even if only different incantations of that same feature, to retrieve file\format definitions. There may or may not be, I do not recall, a similar effect for TOMBR(); i.e. a claim that the TOMBR() specification of OVRDBF applies only when the file is opened, may be accurate.

Regards, Chuck

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