On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:32:18 -0400, Blaicher, Christopher Y. wrote: > >Do not MOD data to a FBS file. A short block in an FBS file is a EOF >condition. This means that if you luck out and fill the last buffer of a >file, you can MOD to it, but 99 44/100 percent of the time it doesn't work and >a program that goes to read the file doesn't see the added records in the file. > <RHETORIC> How, then, do OSes with native FBA filesystems manage to support appending to files?</RHETORIC> Couldn't QSAM have been designed to to likewise?
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