[Info-vax] The best VMS features, was: Re: openvms renaming file

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-05-30 03:23:26 +0000, Dave Froble said:

> My (not so recent) memory of RMS was that the parts of a key were 
> location and length.  Nothing about names and such.  could be wrong.

The use of the key name field (XAB$L_KNM, et al) could be spotty.  I 
coded an app to use the key name as the interface involved was 
considered unsupported and volatile, and then discovered that some of 
the target SYSUAF files didn't have the key name field set.  So the 
code was then updated to detect the no-name case, and guessed the 
identity of the key based on heuristics.  Fun times.   Maybe wildcard 
$getuai support, and preferably with a wholesale migration to 
ubiquitous LDAP...   Eventually.



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