Re: COBOL 3.2 on z/OS reading variable len files

"William M. Klein" <wmklein@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> "line sequential" isn't relevant for this (IBM mainframe) problem.  "VB"

> means that it has
>    DCB=RECFM=VB
> where "vb" is "variable and blocked" in IBM-ese

Oh, I guess I should read the subject. "z/OS" is kind of a giveaway, huh? 
(I was helping someone else recently where 'VB' meant something else. )

Well, at least The Force is still an option for Mr. Skywalker......

(C'mon, I get to do something silly every eight-ten years or so, don't I?)

-- 
Michael C. Mattias
Tal Systems Inc.
Racine WI
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