[Info-vax] Still no DIR/SORT_BY_TIME
Johnny Billquist
bqt at softjar.se
Wed Aug 19 11:22:43 EDT 2015
On 2015-08-19 17:06, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <mr0e5m$n01$3 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>
>> You also mention RMS. I don't think that's the only option on either RSTS/E or
>> RSX. Note, never used RSX.
>
> I never used RSTS, but on RSX we had FCS long before we got RMS. FCS
> had locking that was just as mandatory as RMS. Don't recall if BRU
> or other backup utilities had the equivalent of /ignore=interlock.
> We generally used DSC offline.
BRU can and will get around the issue as BRU actually do not pass
through F11ACP. BRU reads the actual physical disk, and understands the
ODS-1 file structure on its own... BRU also do horrific optimizations
based on this, making it a very complex program.
Johnny
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