[Info-vax] wrong file format

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Wed Jan 6 19:05:37 EST 2021


On 1/6/2021 7:02 PM, 1tim.... at gmail.com wrote:
> RMS could be improved in a large number of ways. I'd really like to see some set operations, where you can operate on a number of records as a group.
> 
> Like a sys$get_recordset, where you specify a simple range on a key. i.e. Key 1, from "AA" to "DD". one of the arguments would have to be a buffer large enough to hold the returned data.  Today, we do these things in code layered on top of RMS.
> 
> sys$put_recordset
> sys$update_recordset
> sys$delete_recordset
> 
> etc.

That would also solve the problem mentioned by Hein
about the overhead of a call into EXEC mode for each record
read/written.

Arne




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