by Robert Sample » Wed Nov 30, 2016 6:06 pm
No, offset and position are not interchangeable -- not in COBOL, not in Easytrieve (which is what I assume you meant by EZT), not in assembler, not on a PC, not on a Unix / Linux machine. Offsets start at zero while positions start at 1. The first byte of a record has offset 0 and position 1.