[Info-vax] VMS enhancement suggestion: Add a "read regardless" file open option.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-11-09 kl. 14:30, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On RSTS/E, you can view the contents of a file opened for write by
> specifying mode 4096 as in:
> 
> pip filename.dat/mo:4096
> 
> What would be involved in adding a "read regardless" file open option
> to VMS which would allow the opening of files for read only even if
> they are already open for write, and then adding a qualifier to $ TYPE
> to use this new option ?
> 
> How useful would others here find this capability ?
> 
> Simon.
> 

How usefull? I'd say it would be usefull, simply.

Our detached applications logs messages to log files which
are opened/written/closed for each line written. So they
can always be TYPE'ed. But with some overhead for each line
written, of course.