David Crayford wrote: <begin extract> Where does "spanned" come into play? Why does that make the difference? </end extract>
The short answer is that it does not come into play. For fixed-length records, S means 'standard', without short blocks. For variable-length records, S means 'spanned', a [logical] record may span a [physical] block. Thus VBS denotes Variable Block Spanned, and FBS denotes Fixed Block Standard. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
