Cobol - Re: Windows/Macro Language Info?

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Re: Windows/Macro Language Info?

Richard

2005-04-01, 3:55 am

> You can easily imagine a situation where due to some glitch or other
> a data file had some of its sectors overwritten. A randomly
> accessed Product File, for example, could be damaged without
> anyone knowing about it since the damaged sectors were not
> accessed by the application

Let us see how that would work:

You open the file to be backed up
You open output the backup file
You read/write until a '9/41' or worse

The data file is corrupt, the backup file is overwritten and only has
the records up to the failure.

Well done.

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