Scott Klement wrote:
OVRDBF only applies to a file when the file is opened. It has no
impact any other time.
<<SNIP>>
Effectively. Not quite so definitively however. The "override
to type-of file" commands do have an effect in some other
situations. Most notably is for the capability to /extract/ the
file definition of\from the overridden-to file name, for example,
when an override is in effect for a compile. There may be others
[beyond open and extract], even if only different incantations of
that same feature, to retrieve file\format definitions. There may
or may not be, I do not recall, a similar effect for TOMBR(); i.e. a
claim that the TOMBR() specification of OVRDBF applies only when the
file is opened, may be accurate.
Regards, Chuck
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