After thinking about this for a week, I'm going to agree with Rob's point of 
view here. I
think this is the desired behavior as well.

Rob van der Heij wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:53 PM, John Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

When the output placement is a member of a structure it will have a
length and thus such a specification item will never be ignored.  But
is this desirable?

I think it is. After all, when you map the output record by
structures, it is a fixed layout that should not lack fields. Except
maybe for a member with length * ?

Rob

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