[Info-vax] RMS internals?

[Arne Vajhøj]

Howard S Shubs wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but you should use UNDEFINED. By specifying anything else
the actual content is invalid for the record format specified.

Arne