Re: first time using direct access files: recl ??

From: glen herrmannsfeldt (gah_at_ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:29:57 GMT

Richard Maine wrote:

(snip)

> Recall that James Van Buskirk was griping about the code not being
> consistently *EXACTLY* copied from the source into the postings, and
> he was particularly metioning source form issues. James is a pretty
> smart guy (and has often turned out to be right on things that I
> initally argued about with him). His gripe is right on target
> enough that I almost wonder whether he saw the problem... Nah;
> he'd have given the answer instead of being coy, but still...

Oh, that is what he was commenting about? I thought it was
about the tab style, which we had previously discussed here.
But I had figured if the tabs were not recognized the errors
would be much worse.

> Looking *VERY* carefully at

Just a little more carefully than I looked.

>>WRITE(18,REC=IK) IKEYtot,(TIT(I),I=1,5),TETAEF,GLOG,ASALOG,NHE,AMG,
>>1 L0,LF,LZERO,LFIN,ITOT,DPAS,ECHX,ECHY,FWHM,(FL(D),D=I1,I2)

Remember the days of punched cards with the columns numbered and
little bars separating colums 5 from 6 and 7, and 72 from 73?

But even then we usually debugged from printed listings.

-- glen