In <0997106197004218.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on
06/10/2013
   at 04:02 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:

>Is uniform lengths a requirement?  

No.

>Do any applications rely on being able to calculate a cylinder and 
>track address within a VBS data set?

I hope not; if it does, it's broken.

>Does this mean one can't append (MOD) to a VBS data set?  

No.


>What happens if after writing the last segment of a logical record 
>the block is not filled up to BLKSIZE but fewer bytes are 
>available than the length of a SDW?

Short block.

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