[Info-vax] Oracle Database vs Oracle/Rdb

[Bob Koehler]

In article <8e15f0b2-a4a1-4a28-bad0-a687f093e096 at googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
> 
> Question: I did not think that Pascal had builtin RMS support (as in direct=
> ly opening/reading INDEXED files without resorting to system calls). At lea=
> st this was the case back when I last used VAX Pascal. Was builtin RMS supp=
> ort added to Pascal during the Alpha days -or- are we using different defin=
> itions for "builtin"?

   Keyed-indexed files are not all of RMS.  The Pascal I/O routines in
   it's run-time libraries sit on top of RMS, whether they provide
   direect support for keyed-indexed or not.