# INQUIRE: POSITION Specifier

The POSITION specifier asks the position of the file. It takes the following form:

POSITION = pos

pos | Is a scalar default character variable that is assigned one of the following values:
'REWIND' | If the file is connected with its position at its initial point
'APPEND' | If the file is connected with its position at its terminal point (or before its end-of-file record, if any)
'ASIS' | If the file is connected without changing its position
'UNDEFINED' | If the file is not connected, or is connected for direct access data transfer and a REWIND statement has not been performed on the unit

Parent topic: INQUIRE Statement Specifiers