[Info-vax] Large mailboxes - RMS Indexed file internal design
Craig A. Berry
craigberry at nospam.mac.com
Sat Dec 5 12:44:55 EST 2020
On 12/5/20 11:02 AM, Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
> The record RFA ( = RRV ) can be consider that key to some degree.
> It is a GUID of sorts, just too bad they (understandably) picked 16 bits for the ID at the time.
The BASIC manual claims that the RFA data type is 6 bytes:
<http://h30266.www3.hpe.com/odl/vax/progtool/cpqbasic39/bas_ref_001.htm#334dts2_global>
So is that the combination of VBN plus the 16-bit ID you are talking about?
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