[Info-vax] Cobol: Faster flushing of buffer to sequential file

[George Cornelius]

In article <00AAAA70.D5B78BF4 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> And it requires the creator or initial opener to permit write access.
> As I said somewhere in this long thread, I'm not one to allow writers
> to my application log files.  Thus, the SYS$FLUSH seems to be the only
> way to get the EOF update if the file is to remain open but allow read
> access by others.

Not quite.

 $ ! FILE_LISTER.TMP GFC 20110207 List OPEN ALLOWING READERS file
 $ open/read/share xx my_file.dat
 $ type xx
 $ close xx

With this lister, the app can be changed to OPEN ALLOWING READERS.

George Cornelius