File Description Specification Statement

The general layout for the file description specification is as follows:

• the file description specification type (F) is entered in position 6
• the non-commentary part of the specification extends from position 7 to position 80
  • the fixed-format entries extend from positions 7 to 42. For files defined with the LIKEFILE keyword, the entries from position 17 to position 43 must be blank. The values for those fixed-form entries are taken from the parent file specified by the LIKEFILE keyword.
  • the keyword entries extend from positions 44 to 80
• the comments section of the specification extends from position 81 to position 100

*.. 1 ...+... 2 ...+... 3 ...+... 4 ...+... 5 ...+... 6 ...+... 7 ...+... 8 ...+... 9 ...+... 10
FFilename++IPEASFRlen+LKlen+AIDevice+.Keywords+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Comments++++++++++++