[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <YuWdnWNbWqUwBkfUnZ2dnUVZ_sHinZ2d at giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> JF Mezei wrote:
>> Michael Kraemer wrote:
>> 
>>> Records and blocks predate VMS.
>>>
>> 
>> And for those instances where soe Unix system does require "records",
>> the use a database system. And this is one big reason that Oracle is one
>> of the largest software companies in the world.
> 
> Nothing stops your Unix program from using "records".  They can be fixed 
>   or variable length, unblocked or blocked, but they are *your* 
> responsibility.  As far as Unix is concerned, records are a figment of 
> your imagination.  A database is in no way essential to using records in 
> Unix.  You want indexed sequential?  Roll your own!  Or you can buy 
> commercial software that fills the gap.

Or you can go out and grab one of the implementations that have been
making the rounds in Unix circles since long before GNU and the FSF
"invented" opensource.

bill
 

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