[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-12-31, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> wrote:
>
> Nice, but suppose you have a Cobol compiler on Unix, then it will have 
> to set up its own file system with all the files Cobol supports, like 
> indexed files. What will that application do with those files? RMS will 
> tell you the structure of the file, you don't have to guess it.
>

RMS only does this at a relatively meaningless level.

For example, unlike with SQL, you don't know the data field names,
their size and data type just by looking at the RMS data.

For example, there's nothing in the RMS metadata which tells you the
SYSUAF.DAT field names, sizes and data types.

Simon.

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