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Subject: Re: Opening Indexed and Relative Files
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Date: Fri, 4-Jul-86 11:17:24 EDT
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Yes.  You simply use the OPEN statement (in FORTRAN, use the equivalent
in whatever language you're programming in) specifying the type of record
access you want (keyed or sequential).  RMS figures out what (if any) keys
exist without any further help from the user.  If you want to create a new
file, you must, of course, specify the keys at creation time.