[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <3ddb$4f8e9ccb$5ed43999$7815 at cache60.multikabel.net>, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> writes:

> Indeed it is not. Cobol for instance has the deferred write option.

   VMS was in large part, a product of Fortran times.  And VMS 
   Fortran is quite happy to buffer file data if you use the options 
   in the OPEN statement that tell it to do so.

   In practice, I only had to turn them off once.  All the other code
   I worked with could simply reprocess the input data.  In fact I
   spend a lot more time telling Fortran, C, ..., to increase the
   buffering.

   But I still find it a PITA to have to sprinkle fsynch calls all
   through my UNIX code when I want to decrease the buffering.