[Info-vax] RMS internals?

[Arne Vajhøj]

Howard S Shubs wrote:
> In article <4a7dbb58$0$295$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
>  Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> In that case it is not a really a valid file.
> 
> I'm not sure how you arrive at this result.  A file can have any record.  
> RMS asserts limits which other operating systems do not have to adhere 
> to.  So I've written code which "deals" with RMS' limits.
> 
>> See:
>>    http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/731final/4523/4523pro_006.html#fab_mrs
> 
> Yes, BTDT.  Those are RMS-specific limits.  If the file had been 
> generated on VMS, maybe they'd be relevant.  Since the file was 
> generated elsewhere, they're not.

Those limits are relevant.

As soon as you have a file with longer lines and you set the
record type to something other than undefined, then you are
lying to VMS about the content and should be prepared for
weird results by utilities and programs trying to access
the file.

Arne