Table 18. Position of the File Pointer When a File Is Opened with No POSITION= Specifier
-qposition suboptions | Implicit OPEN | Explicit OPEN | ||||||
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STATUS = 'NEW' | STATUS = 'OLD' | STATUS = 'UNKNOWN' | ||||||
File exists | File does not exist | File exists | File does not exist | File exists | File does not exist | File exists | File does not exist | |
option not specified | Start | Start | Error | Start | Start | Error | Start | Start |
appendold | Start | Start | Error | Start | End | Error | Start | Start |
appendunknown | Start | Start | Error | Start | Start | Error | End | Start |
appendold and appendunknown | Start | Start | Error | Start | End | Error | End | Start |