Re: Are level checks still useful?

[James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan Andelin wrote:

> No, throwing off all your safeguards would be using internally
> defined data structures or "i" specs to define file layouts. Nobody
> is suggesting going back to that.

Actually, THAT might be SAFER than using an externally described DS for 
your buffer.

Far better, in cases like this, to read into a manually-defined DS, with 
the fields that are of interest (and that are rigidly controlled against 
being moved) manually defined, and the rest of the record ignored. Or to 
read into a completely unfielded buffer, and locate your fields by 
obtaining the meta-data at runtime.

If this scares the <censored> out of you, try doing RLA I/O from C, 
sometime.

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JHHL