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Using the 900 Series HP 3000: Advanced Skills Module 7: Solutions Guide

Lesson 2 Building Disk Files 

Q 2-5                 The record length is 80 bytes (80B).

Q 2-6                 The blocking factor (R/B) is 16.

Q 2-7                 The record type is fixed length (F).

Q 2-8                 The file type is ASCII (A).

Q 2-9                 The original BUILD command that created MYFILE was
                      the following:

                      BUILD MYFILE;REC=-80,16,F,ASCII

Exercise 2-2:  Creating a File to Specification 

   1.  The following are the BUILD commands necessary to create each of
       the specified files:

          a.  BUILD FILE1;REC=64,,F,ASCII;CIR

          b.  BUILD FILE2;REC=256,,V,BINARY

          c.  BUILD FILE3;REC=-88,,V,ASCII

   2.  The following is the BUILD command necessary to create a file with
       the following characteristics:

                record size   = 80 bytes
                record length = fixed length
                file type     = ASCII
                BUILD myname;REC=-80,,F,ASCII

********** End of Exercise 2-2 ********* 

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