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

[Tom Wade]

On 2020-11-09 13:30, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 ?

If you want to read files that are locked by another process, check out 
the Ralf utility at www.tomwade.eu/software

Ralf is written as a callable utility, but has a command line PEEK 
[/page] program that displays a locked file.  We used it extensively to 
examine PMDF message files that were being processed (and therefore locked).


Tom Wade
tom dot wade at tomwade dot eu