[Info-vax] 64-bit file sizes, was: Re: scp or sftp: file is "raw", needs to be parsed - possible to work around that?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-05-20 20:10:12 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> I was thinking more about the internal RMS indexed file structure and 
> if the internal block pointers to other parts of the indexed file are 
> 32-bit values.
> 
> I was wondering if we would need a Prolog-4 version of RMS indexed 
> files with 64-bit internal block numbers. There are also RFAs to 
> consider and how you would move them around the rest of VMS and the 
> user's applications.

SQLite is 64-bit.  🤷🏼  🦆🦆

RFAs, FIDs, file sizes, UTF-8, the fun here with increased storage 
sizes and storage capacities and storage addressing and storage 
features is ~endless.

ODS-5 / EFS support has not yet landed in many apps, and I've yet to 
grok whatever doc is available for the UTF-8 support that snuck out.

Per VSI comments, the storage device drivers have been updated, while 
work on the replacement file system was arriving later.



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