Re: V5R2: Source now allowed in the IFS

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why do you think that the IFS is "SO inefficient a user of space"?

It seems to me that the fixed-length source member is inefficient, since
all the blank characters at the end of every line of text are wasted in a
fixed-length system.

So, I'm baffled by your statement.  Is there something about the IFS that
I don't know?  Something that makes it waste even more space than that?


On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Al Barsa wrote:
>
> I was at the Inge Weiss session yesterday where she indicated that source
> can be put into the IFS, but the IFS is SO inefficient a user of space, why
> would I ever want to ever want to waste that disk space?  (PS:  This
> observation was taken in the V4R4 time frame/)
>