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From: robin <[log in to unmask]>
> From: Van Snyder <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wednesday, 26 October 2005 4:14
>
> >Or just read into a nine-element (or nine-column) array cyclically,
> >keeping track of the seam in the cycle, so you can retrieve the last
> >nine records in order.
>
> If the file is very long, better to read each entire record using an
> A-format (in order to avoid the conversions), using the cycle method,
> and then to read those records using the desired format.
>
> >--
> >Van
Have I lost track of something here? What's wrong with
POSITION=APPEND on the OPEN? Doesn't that get you to the
end by magic? Then do the 9 backspaces.
Dick Hendrickson
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