[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/9/2021 1:54 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 10/9/2021 6:19 AM, Greg Tinkler wrote:
>> every thing is clumps of data being buffered is some way, the API that 
>> accesses that data from the higher levels may be stream based.  In 
>> this case it is CRTL's role to translate the clumps of data into/from 
>> stream API.
> 
> So, how does Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, Basic, and such do it?

They do not treat files as streams of bytes - they treat files
as sequences of records.

The underlying problem is that the two paradigms are pretty
incompatible. It is not easy for CRTL to translate a sequence
of records to a stream of bytes in a consistent and meaningful
manner.

Arne