[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Friday, October 8, 2021 at 6:19:02 AM UTC+13, Dave Froble wrote:
> As far as I know, QIO doesn't know a thing about RMS. Well, the 
> directory structure does know RMS, and to an extent is RMS.

Last I checked*, on VMS, directories were just files, and there was no protection against processes with write access screwing up their contents. For some reason that was not considered to be a vital part of filesystem integrity.

RMS implements the full file/directory name syntax, but the management of name entries inside directories is an ACP/XQP function.

*decades ago, admittedly