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Nathan Andelin wrote:
No, throwing off all your safeguards would be using internally
defined data structures or "i" specs to define file layouts. Nobody
is suggesting going back to that.
Actually, THAT might be SAFER than using an externally described DS for
your buffer.
Far better, in cases like this, to read into a manually-defined DS, with
the fields that are of interest (and that are rigidly controlled against
being moved) manually defined, and the rest of the record ignored. Or to
read into a completely unfielded buffer, and locate your fields by
obtaining the meta-data at runtime.
If this scares the <censored> out of you, try doing RLA I/O from C,
sometime.
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JHHL
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