In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/29/2005
at 01:09 PM, Bill Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Not true if the EOF record is already there. You can rewrite the EOF
>record into the same space on the track without using a formatting
>write, although this does not usually accomplish anything useful.
As I recall, DOS/360 supported an EOF with a non-zero key length. If
you had to deal with such an animal, a Write Key and Data CCW might be
useful for updating it. It's not something that I've ever done, ever
seen done or ever wanted to see done.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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