On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
>> Have you spoken to Brian about this? Peter's implication was that it was
>> associated with a change from HDS3 to HDS4 since HDS3 could read the file
>> okay.
>
> No; he's on leave back on July 9.
>
>> The error message is meant to be cryptic - I chose DAT__WEIRD since it
>> wasn't meant to ever happen :-) The filename could be added to the error
>> message pretty easily.
>
> That might help if you've more than one GLOBAL file.
>
>> The error message does say it's GLOBAL.
>
> Yes but it doesn't name the component. I might have lots of values that
> I want to retain and removing the file is undesirable.
So in this case do an HCOPY, that seems to resolve the internal
structuring issues at the heart of what's going on (which I'd say is an
error with HDS's accounting of the free space in the file).
Peter.
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