HELP: Record format of FLAMFILE [FIX] TYPE: NUMBER SYNTAX: RECFORMAT/RECFORM/RECFMT/RECFM/RECF=FIX/F/VAR/V/TEXT/STREAM/UNDEFINED/UNDEF/U/FIXBLK/FB/FIXS/FBS/VARBLK/VB/VARSPAN/VBS
Record format for FLAMFILE (compressed file).
Syntax restrictions for FLAMv4 or older:
RECFM=F/V/U/FB/VB/VBS/FBS
RECFORM=FIX/VAR/UNDEF/FIXBLK/VARBLK/VARSPAN/FIXS
RECF=FIX/VAR/UNDEF/FIXBLK/VARBLK/VARSPAN/FIXS
-recformat=fix/var/stream
recdelim
is not specified, 0x0a is used as the default
record delimiter.-recformat
needs only to be specified for the compression
procedure.recformat=fix / var / text
F/FIX
- Fixed record lengthV/VAR
- Variable record lengthU/UNDEF
- Undefined record lengthFB/FIXBLK
- Fix blockedVB/VARBLK
- Variable blockedVBS/VARSPAN
- Variable spannedFBS/FIXS
- Fix standardfix
- Fixed-size records, size as set by the -recsize parameter.var
- Variable-size records; the record size field is 2 bytes long.stream
- Variable-size records with a record delimiter.fix
- records with a fixed record length (default for all FLAMFILES).var
- Variable-size records; the record size field is 2 bytes long.text
- Variable-size records with a record delimiter.FIX - Records with a fixed record length (default for all FLAMFILES)
F - Records with a fixed record length (default for all FLAMFILES)
VAR - Records with a variable record length. The additional (!) record length field is 2 bytes long
V - Records with a variable record length. The additional (!) record length field is 2 bytes long
TEXT - Records with a variable record length and end-of-record characters (CX7 only)
STREAM - Variable-size records with a record delimiter
UNDEFINED - Records with undefined record length (Host only)
UNDEF - Records with undefined record length (Host only)
U - Records with undefined record length (Host only)
FIXBLK - Fix blocked (Host only)
FB - Fix blocked (Host only)
FIXS - Fix standard (Host only)
FBS - Fix standard (Host only)
VARBLK - Variable blocked (Host only)
VB - Variable blocked (Host only)
VARSPAN - Variable spanned (Host only)
VBS - Variable spanned (Host only)