[Info-vax] Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was Re: FREESPADRIFT)

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In article <nl3r7d$pdc$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>On 2016-06-30 17:03:54 +0000,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG said:
>
>> In article <nl3fph$jfn$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist 
>> <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> 
>>> Are you really writing this in with a serious intent???
>> 
>> Yes.  Go learn VMS RMS!
>
>Why not tell the kids to learn and use cylinder-head-sector addressing, 
>Brian?  Or is something as advanced as CHS passé now?

RTFM:  OpenVMS I/O Users Guide! ;)



>Do I like (some) aspects of RMS and the XQP?  Sure.  Not losing data is 
>really nice.   But programming the RMS API?   Not so much.

It doesn't bother me too much save for when I have to populate the structures
with C.   cc$rms_Tab?  Save for filling in the Tab$b_bid with a Tab$C_BID and
the Tab$b_bln with Tab$C_BLN, it's pretty useless.  Lack of a competent macro
capability in C further limits simplifying the RMS stuff that's cake in Macro
or Bliss. 

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