On Jul 6, 2006, at 12:08 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 22:21:07 -0500, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
The SAMe SU (IIRC) assumed that all blocks would be the same size
except for the last. I don't recall of finding short blocks in any of
the QSAM type datasets sine the SAMe came out. I don't recall of a
programmer ever needing a short block. While there may b e a few out
there I have never run across them personally.
It has long been possible to create interior short blocks by at
least the following techniques:
o RECFM=V
o DISP=MOD
I doubt that SAMe would have had the influence to change either
of those.
-- gil
Gil,
WHile that is true no programmer I ever ran into, ever trusted
"MOD" . Yes it does work though. The programmers really only use of
mod was in checkpoint restart tape. Even then it was grimaced at.
Back in the "old times" uptime was at best bad (can we say 5
minutes?) so no one really trusted it (MOD).
Ed
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