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In article <kTUwIgJEkh7U at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>In article <00AC6499.BC6B46DE at SendSpamHere.ORG>,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>> 
>> 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
>
>   I once heard from a VMS engineer that directories are handled by RMS.
>   But all the pieces are available via the $QIO interface, except for
>   the recursion to work down a list of directories, looking up each FID
>   and using it as the next DID.

Filename parsing is not handling directories per se.



>   I suspect that is the piece RMS does for us when we open a file by
>   the full path.  I can't imagine VMS engineers writing that more
>   than once.

But opening the file(s) to resolve to the FID of the file in question
can be done with $QIO IO$_ACCESS, FIBs and a walk from the MFD -- RMS
isn't needed.  Granted, the is done for you by RMS but I can open any
file on a disk with $QIO IO$_ACCESS and a FIB populated with the FID
of the file I want to open.

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