[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/7/2021 1:17 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-01-07 16:49:23 +0000, Arne Vajhj said:
>> On 1/6/2021 9:14 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> I haven't had to mess around with file system data structures or 
>>> such, and—thankfully—haven't had to deal with anything as involved as 
>>> RMS and its interfaces. And with better results.
>>>
>>> With OpenVMS, I'm finding it easier and faster with various apps to 
>>> bypass RMS and access the storage as sectors—stream access might be 
>>> easier, but sector access are what we have available.
>>
>> ????
>>
>> SYS$QIO(W) with IO$_READLBLK or what?
> 
> $crmpsc, usually.  Other options include $io_perform, depending on the 
> local requirements.

Ah - sections. The term "sectors" gave me some different associations.

Arne