Re: gnubol: RE: Record delimiter clause and parse order

[Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au>]

Bill is right as always. I have verified this with my own eyes.
As was pointed out, with line sequential, it is non=standard so
you can do what you want and what the users expect (if that is
possible). I guess rewrite of a line sequential file would have
to truncate or space fill as appropriate.

As for checking the attributes, line sequential files have no
attributes. Someone might specify a fixed length line sequential.
Does this mean a record of a different length is an error? I
think they would consider you an very annoying person to kill
their program based on that. So an inconsistent attributes status
would not I think be given for line sequential.

It is useful to discuss but it is also good to produce some code.

Tim Josling

"William M. Klein" wrote:
> 
> Do you have a (free PDF) copy of the draft of the next Standard?  If so, the
> permissible I/O statements and OPEN modes are on page 482 - table 20.
> 
> And *yes* SEQUENTIAL files may be OPEN I-O and YES they may have a WRITE,
> REWRITE, statements (and START if you include the new draft FIRST/LAST
> options)
> 
> The corresponding "table" (for sequential) is on page VII-40 of the '85
> Standard)
>



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