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  3. February 2011

Re: SetLL *start

On 2/27/2011 5:08 PM, M. Lazarus wrote:
Is there any good technical (not historical) reason that we still have
any opcodes that can't use record formats and file names, for data
files, interchangeably? PF's can't contain multiple formats.
Multi-format LF's are relatively rare nowadays. The only time it would
require differentiation is if a MFLF is used.

Is there a consideration to relax that requirement?


Not sure what would qualify as a good technical reason.

I don't think it would be good to simply say that a file name is synonymous with its record format name if there is only one format. At least, it doesn't make sense to me to allow say using a format name on an OPEN opcode. But maybe it makes sense to allow a WRITE or SETLL *START/*END to a format name if there is only one format.

There hasn't been any real consideration given to relaxing those rules.


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