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You have always been able to write a block of only one byte, or even
zero bytes, onto a DASD.
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One byte, yes. But if the device reads a count field with a data length
of zero, it signals a Unit Exception, meaning a EOF mark.
That's what you might call a "special case". :-)
Rick
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