Interesting... *YEARS* ago I ran into this (on DOS to be specific). I didn't know about the bit. Wish I had known about it then!
See, one old dog can teach another one! <gr>
Another aspect of reading RECFM=U data is that you can't chain the reads together. The I/O termination of a chained read only gives you the residual length from the last block read, so you can't tell the actual length of the other blocks.
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