Date:         Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:37:29 +0000
Reply-To:     Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: extracting spflog from dataset
In-Reply-To:  <199903092357.XAA24092@mail-relay.power.net.uk>

John Whittington <medisci@powernet.com> writes
 
>At 22:59 09/03/99 +0000, Peter Crawford wrote:
>
 
 
>general solution you could have would be to code LRECL = 1048576 (i.e. the
>maximum permitted under Windows) - which you could just as easily have done
>in the one-pass approach.
>
 
 
>unliekly event that the record length did exceed that figure!
>
>Kind Regards
>
>John
>
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>Dr John Whittington,        Voice:    +44 (0) 1296 730225
 
 
 
Thank you John,
As you point out that first pass is pointless, not only because of the
two-pass implication, but also because it needs lrecl=1048576 anwyay.
 
That "lrecl=1048576" will become a standard feature in my coding, when
records are expected to be long but of unknown max.
 
You point out FLOWOVER is unnecessary in my example. I put it there to
emphasise that it is the required behaviour, rather than just a default.
 
 
--
Peter Crawford