[Info-vax] OpenVMS - DCL - Data entry filtering

[John Reagan]

On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 8:08:06 PM UTC-4, JF Mezei wrote:
> On 15-03-29 18:03, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
> > MAIL is a (good?) (bad?) example of what happens when you don't have a 
> > modern database, when you do have to work within the limitations on how 
> > fast you can scan directories (and this also from within a 
> 
> 
> But MAIL was originally designed like NOTES, with the expectation that
> most messages would be stored in the main indexed MAIL.MAI file.
> 

I think you have that backwards.  Benn did VMS Mail and then went to do Notes V2 with the current file organization.  Anybody notice that the callable API for Mail and Notes look very much the same?