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

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

The X/Open standard does say that line sequential files may not
be opened I-O.

It also has a discussion about truncation and space filling of
line sequential files. 


"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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