On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:55:49 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I seriously doubt that; it would generate a Unit Exception trying to read the >second record of the member. You're clearly misinterpreting something. > >There is a EOF after the directory and an EOF after each member. There is no >EOF in the middle of a member. > Makes sense.
Now, just curious, what about a block with a data length of 4, where the data are a BDW with a count of 4? Also, just curious, I understand that on tape a block <18 (? still?) is bypassed as a noise record. But it's possible that with RECFM=VB the last block might, by happenstance, consist of as few as 8 bytes (BDW=8; RDW=4). How do tape drivers deal with this? Poorly? With RECFM=VBS, a null segment could be used for padding. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
