Re: Variable Length Input File

Vivian wrote:

The answer is to find yourself a real veteran, do it in assembler on
the mainframe, and call the assembler routine from your cobol program.

I remember when we our company read (appx. it varies) 250,000 byte records,
spilling them to disk, demultiplexing, and applying binary gain, on a
machine with only 64K of core.

It was done with channel programming by a "veteran." He was paid (in today's
dollars) about $100/minute.

Some don't have the resources to devote to a piddly problem like a maverick
tape file issue.


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