Re: Automatic allocation of an available file unit

From: pa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Pierre Asselin)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:07:54 +0000 (UTC)

Richard Maine <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[ ... ] So I
fail to see how numbers that were formerly valid could have fewer
conflicts than ones that were formerly invalid.

By old code assuming that negative numbers cannot refer to
a valid unit.

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