[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 8:04:43 AM UTC+13, John Dallman wrote:
> People used to UNIX or Windows generally find the other VMS file types 
> baffling and confusing.

One question I never saw answered (because I never came across examples of files to check it) was whether in “VFC” files, the record count included the fixed header or not? And was that the same or different in the on-disk format versus the in-memory RMS structure with the “RSZ” (“RAB$W_RSZ”?) field?

By the way, I knew FORTRAN carriage control is now an anachronism, but I didn’t realize that it is now considered so obsolete, that compilers won’t support it any more.