[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-10-06, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <4e4ac776-f43f-4a84-8846-7fd0b6d949een at googlegroups.com>,
> osuvman50 at gmail.com (David Jones) wrote:
>
>> Open source software ports often comes with the restriction that it 
>> only works with stream-LF files. Maybe they should add a flag to
>> directory files that if set only allows it to contain stream-LF 
>> or directory files.
>
> People used to UNIX or Windows generally find the other VMS file types
> baffling and confusing. I got used to the idea, but never made use of
> them, since my employers already had fewer customers on VMS than they did
> UNIX when I joined, and the disparity only increased. 
>

That because asking Unix/Windows people to learn about VMS records and
file structures is like asking a VMS person to learn about how to work
with records and files on z/OS using traditional z/OS methods.

It is something so very, very, different from what they are used to.

Simon.

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