[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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