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This functionality is obsolete. It should not be used in new IDL code.

WRITEU

The following keywords to the WRITEU procedure are obsolete.

VMS-Only Keywords


Note
The obsolete FORWRT routine has been replaced by WRITEU.

REWRITE

When writing data to a file with indexed organization, setting the REWRITE keyword specifies that the data should update the contents of the most recently input record instead of creating a new record.

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