Paul Schlie wrote: > Please take a look at their typical api's for data interface & > storage, you may change your mind. I am already quite familiar with the API for record-based text I/O on mainframe systems. You don't need to do anything special, just read and write. Cobol and C compilers do that just fine in that environment, but only because they abandon the "text is a filtered byte stream" abstraction that is totally inappropriate for those systems. This is an *old* issue, and the solutions are well-known. Your zeal for imposing an abstraction upon systems where it doesn't make sense is impressive but misguided. -- Bradd W. Szonye http://www.szonye.com/bradd
