File Operation Statements

The following statement specifiers and statements are extensions:

• CLOSE statement specifiers:
  
  
  • STATUS values: 'SAVE' (as a synonym for 'KEEP'), 'PRINT', 'PRINT/DELETE', 'SUBMIT', 'SUBMIT/DELETE'
  • DISPOSE (or DISP)
  
  
• DELETE statement
  
  
• INQUIRE statement specifiers:
  
  
  • ACCESS value: 'KEYED' (VMS only)
  • BINARY (WNT, W9*)
  • BUFFERED
  • BLOCKSIZE
  • CARRIAGECONTROL
  • CONVERT
  • DEFAULTFILE
  • FORM values: 'UNKNOWN', 'BINARY' (WNT, W9*)
  • IOFOCUS (WNT, W9*)
  • KEYED (VMS only)
  • MODE as a synonym for ACTION (WNT, W9*)
  • ORGANIZATION
  • RECORDTYPE
  • SHARE (WNT, W9*)
  
  See also INQUIRE Statement.
  
  
• OPEN statement specifiers:
  
  
  • ACCESS values: 'KEYED' (VMS only), 'APPEND'
  • ASSOCIATEVARIABLE
  • BLOCKSIZE
  • BUFFERCOUNT
  • BUFFERED
  • CARRIAGECONTROL
  • CONVERT
  • DEFAULTFILE
  • DISPOSE
  • EXTENDSIZE (VMS only)
  • FORM value: 'BINARY' (WNT, W9*)
  • INITIALSIZE (VMS only)
  • IOFOCUS (WNT, W9*)
  • KEY (VMS only)
  • MAXREC
  • MODE as a synonym for ACTION (WNT, W9*)
  • NAME as a synonym for FILE
  • NOSPANBLOCKS (VMS only)
  • ORGANIZATION
  • READONLY
  • RECORDSIZE as a synonym for RECL
  • RECORDTYPE
  • SHARE (WNT, W9*)
  • SHARED
  • TITLE (WNT, W9*)
  • TYPE as a synonym for STATUS
  • USEROPEN
  
  See also OPEN Statement.
  
  
• UNLOCK statement