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Summary In this lesson you learned the characteristics of field specifications. The field specifications stored in the dictionary define the essential characteristics of the fields used in your application. You also learned how to use the dictionary field specifications screen to set up the fields for your application. The field specifications details that you entered are only definitions; physical file space will be allocated later. For HP ALLBASE/SQL tables and KSAM files, the actual allocation of physical file space occurs when you create the files required by your application. You will do this in lesson 3. Physical space for an HP TurboIMAGE/iX data set cannot be allocated from within HP ALLBASE/4GL. To allocate physical space for an HP TurboIMAGE/iX data set, you must use normal HP TurboIMAGE/iX database creation methods. This completes the first of three tasks required to define the data used in the training application. Your next task is to define the record layouts of your files.