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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 11/10/20 7:25 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-11-09, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:

>> Seems like VAX Basic has a "read regardless" lock qualifier ...
>>
> 
> I wasn't aware of that. Does it allow you to open a sequential file for
> reading while the file is also in the process of being created by another
> program ? You can clearly do it for batch log files but what about programs
> that don't specify that writing mode when creating a sequential file ?
> 
>> Might that be helpful?
>>
>> And of course RMS would have the capability.
>>
> 
> Interesting. One of the issues that was raised when I moved from RSTS/E
> to VMS in the early 1990s was that a VMS version of mode 4096 didn't
> exist and I wasn't aware it had been added in the meantime.

Search for "OpenVMS RMS RAB$V_RRL" and see how it works.  That's
record-level, though, not file-level.