Specifying the Initial Record Position

When you open a disk file, you can use the OPEN statement POSITION specifier to request one of the following initial record positions within the file:

The following I/O statements allow you to change the current record position:

Unless you use nonadvancing I/O, reading and writing records usually advances the current record position by one record. More than one record might be transferred using a single record I/O statement.


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