What is the difference between a Symbolic map and Physical
map ?

Answer Posted / lenin

Physical Map : It denotes the display format of the
terminal,it contains the details of unnamed fields and
attribute , posiion and length details of named fields.It
is stored along with the host language program,

Sympolic map: It consists of all the named fields and for
each named field four fields(Length,flag,attribute(by
redefining Flag) and the original Value) will be created.
It will be stored in the copy library.

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