[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/7/2021 2:07 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-10-07, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> I'm guessing Unix files don't have metadata and such.  So the comparison
>> is not valid.
> 
> No, Unix doesn't. At Unix filesystem level, files are just a stream of bytes.
> 
> The next layer up on Unix is the C RTL. There's nothing like RMS
> between the filesystem and the C RTL on Unix.

The Unix file systems does not have meta data about how the
bytes are to be read/interpreted (like VMS: ORG, RFM, RAT,
MRS etc.). They do have some general meta data (owner,
protection, size, timestamp).

Arne