[Info-vax] RMS - Wish list

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Fri Oct 15 16:08:20 EDT 2021


On 2021-10-15 16:01:19 +0000, Hein RMS van den Heuvel said:

> On Friday, October 15, 2021 at 11:39:10 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> 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.

Through the C calls. Which are mostly-kinda-sorta successful at 
expunging the punched-card abstraction that RMS so adores.



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