[Info-vax] RMS - Wish list

[Hein RMS van den Heuvel]

On Friday, October 15, 2021 at 11:39:10 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-10-15 06:19:14 +0000, Greg Tinkler said: 
> 
> > As a follow on from my previous post 
> > 
> > UDF 
> > files you can sequentially get/put, but you cannot access using RFA. 
> > This would be useful, yup there is no defined record but the buffer 
> > size is all that is needed. 'record' locking is based on RFA so shared 
> > access should not be a problem.

> You're asking for what a stream file provides.

Noop. 
At least not for stream files in RMS terms, accessed through RMS.
For access to stream files through RMS you cannot just specify a size.
RMS will hunt for terminators as per specific stream attribute.

Hein.