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Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:28:43 -0400
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:54:17 -0500 Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:You can also use QSAM GETs to read the directory. And if you specify a
KEYLEN=8
, you can see the key of each block, so you can stop
:before hitting the actual end of the directory. The block with a key of
X'F
FFF' is the last block used.
QSAM does not allow access to the key.
BSAM does.
IIRC (from long ago -- I haven't dusted off the code) there's also a
member entry with the same HIGH VALUES name, so there's no need to
read the keys. In fact, doesn't one need to check for that value in
order to process residual members in that incomplete final block?
--unsnip--
You are correct, Gil. It's a twelve-byte entry with name of all X'FF' and a
TTR value of zeros.
Benjamen, ISTR that a RECFM=U, LRECL=255,KEYLEN=8 brought in a key as well as
the actual block. It's been so long that I may have been using BSAM,but SQAM
sticks in
the mind. Oh well, it's been so long that it really matters not, at this
point. G
Rick (Retired) Fochtman
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