[Info-vax] RMS internals?

[Howard S Shubs]

In article <4a7dc34a$0$299$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
 Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:

> Those limits are relevant.

Only in the sense that I have to get around them, which is the point.  I 
can't go to the 3rd party and tell them to get their record length down.


> 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.

Which is why I had to write what I've been talking about.  My 
programmers can now call my routines and get whole records, regardless 
of RMS' limitations.  I use RMS to get the data.  Period.  No "record 
management" for this, just open the file and hand me so many blocks of 
data, so I don't have to do the directory lookup and $QIO to the disk 
myself.

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