In <[email protected]>, on 10/10/2013
   at 07:57 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:

>Bits is bits.  A UNIX file is simply a flat linear file;

A PDS member is not a flat linear file.

>Why couldn't the same information be stored in a PDS?

Because a PDS member doesn't have the right structure.

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