In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/28/2006
at 01:57 AM, Ron and Jenny Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The text blocks appear as a continuous byte stream, but this is the
>unformatted representation of the text records, where each record is
>machine instruction.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say there. A text record is a
storage image with no additional control information: it can be read
directly in place. There is no issue of formatted versus unformatted.
>When I said "may be 256 bytes" I was referring to the size of the
>instruction "record,"
What instruction record? Machine instructions are in a text record,
which is not limited to 256 bytes.
>and I probably would have been more accurate to say
>"up to 256 bytes."
No, because text records are *not* limited to 256 bytes. You're
confusing them with other records, e.g., Control, RLD.
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