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Re: gnubol: Record delimiter clause and parse order



Matthew,
What's a "device"? Where does it say in quotes is a device and
otherwise it's a file?
Tim Josling

Matthew Vanecek wrote:

> I'm just going to worry about basic sequential I/O right now.  Devices,
> etc, whether or not we support them will come down the road.  There's
> really not much difference, as far as the SELECT and FD clauses are
> concerned--not in the COBOL, anyhow.  That is, aside from the identifier
> (i.e., if it's in quotes, it's a file, if it's not, it's a device, but
> if it's not a device, it could be a file...wow, how twisted...)

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