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Prevent MIDAS from splitting two-word directives across blocks.
When: - MIDAS is writing a "standard data" block to a REL file; - it wants to write a 76 (local-to-global/rename/expunge) directive, which needs two words of data; - and there's only one word of space left in the block; it wrote the first one to the current block, and the second word to the start of the next block. The REL documentation doesn't say that you *can't* do this, but it seems dubious because there's no guarantee that the next block is of the same type... and STINK 1/201 definitely doesn't expect it, because it reads the "spilled" second word as the first set of codebits for the next block. Fix by checking, before writing a 76 directive, whether there's only one space left in the buffer; if so, start a new block immediately. There is a flag (IRCONT) that MIDAS sometimes sets to indicate that it shouldn't end a block yet for other two-word directives; I tried using it in this case, but the effect was that it never managed to actually write the block at all. I'm not entirely convinced that it's right in the other places where it's used. This is MIDAS 323. I've not checked other versions of MIDAS for this problem yet.
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