In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/24/2006
at 02:40 PM, Thomas David Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>OK - admittedly - walking thru the directory entries and trying to
>interpret that as VB isn't the best thing in the world... but, what's
>a program "to do" with what the user types.
Google for "sanity check". One example is testing for a PDS with no
member name for a ddname that must be sequential.
>Or - is there a way to know this is a bunch of bytes from a PDS
>directory... and this READ doesn't make sense?
There's a way to know that the *OPEN* doesn't make sense. Search for
"Allocation Retrieval List" (ARL).
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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