[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[David Froble]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <k13p6r$v09$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:

>> On ODS type disks, on VMS, it's my understanding that the directories are RMS 
>> files, or sort of ..   Thus the impression that VMS and RMS are tied together. 
>> In a way they are, but, it is possible to have other files, I do, and don't 
>> depend very much on RMS.  Used RMS for the filename parsing, no sense 
>> re-inventing the wheel, and if it changes, RMS will already be modified for you. 
>>  But after that, no calls to RMS.
> 
> Directory files are handled in the XQP, not by RMS.  Granted, there are
> RMS services to manipulate directories but that'd be like saying that C's
> mkdir() is a part of the file system
> 

Ya know, I really should have understood that, as I've had occasions to 
do some reading of directory structures.  Never got into any modifications.