On 09/08/2011 09:04 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > That got me too! "not fanout".
In the real old days, before NOT, the idiom was: (end /) ... | 2: fanout | 1: fanout / 2: | ... / 1: | ... The record is written to 2's primary and then 1's alternate(s) first, and to 2's alternate(s) after that. I still occasionally find myself using this when I need more than two copies of the record (since NOT only works with two streams), or with more FANOUTs when I need to reorder more than two copies. I've always wished FANOUT (and GATHER) could take a list of streams in its argument (allowing streams to be specified more than once, and optionally filling in any unspecified streams at the end of the list). ¬R
