RE: CL DCLF

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>does anyone know how to get a dclf'ed physical 
>> file in a CL program to reposition back to start of file ?  
>
>You have to retrieve the number of records in 
>the member of the file and use a loop counter 
>to know, if the last record has been read.

Since several people posted this idea, I thought I should raise the red flag
that this technique fails if somebody deletes (or adds!) a record to the
file between the "get the number of records" and the end of the read loop.
This is fine for the utility you are proposing, but I still think that an
HLL is more appropriate for reading DB files.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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