On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:27:02 +0200, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > >BPAM is not THAT unfriendly. > If it truly were "not THAT unfriendly" you'd not have troubled to write a wrapper to hide the hostility from the programmer; nor would numerous other inventors who independently replicated your effort.
>A while back (probably before many lurkers on this list were born, but I >digress) I wrote a set of subroutines called QPAM to hide the tricky stuff >from the programmer (don't know if I can give it out). > > QPAM GET - get next record > QPAM PUT - put a record > QPAM TRUNC - force a write of all queued blocks > QPAM RLSE - stop reading current member > >You still hard coded the FIND and STOW, but they are rather simple. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
