[Info-vax] RMS internals?

P. Sture paul.nospam at sture.ch
Fri Aug 7 17:27:02 EDT 2009


In article <4a7c4310$1 at flight>,
 Malcolm Dunnett <nothome at spammers.are.scum> wrote:

> Howard S Shubs wrote:
> > Anyone know where I can get documentation on this?  I've tried HP, and 
> > they've not gotten back to me.
> > 
> 
> Somewhere around here I have a document which describes the RMS formats. 
> It predates the indexed file compression stuff but other than that it's 
> still relevant.
> 
> It wasn't a published book, it was something that had been printed off
> on a line-printer and photocopied (I got it from a local DEC software
> guy decades ago).
> 
> If there are specific questions you have I could try to find it (maybe I 
> could fax or snail mail you a section of it).
> 
> You might be better off asking in comp.os.vms (while RMS was also 
> offered on other DEC OSes it was most significant on VMS) [I'm 
> cross-posting my reply there]

If it's the same document I am thinking of, I've (somewhat belatedly) 
posted the original text here:

<http://www.sture.ch/content/brief-overview-rms-11-internals>

-- 
Paul Sture



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