[Info-vax] Calling $CREPRC in COBOL

[seasoned_geek]

On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 4:28:37 PM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:

> Actually, not only is it not broke, it has utilities for ease of use. For a 
> "more modern" (I hated typing that) implementation perhaps the utilities for 
> ease of use might still be required to be developed.

See my reply on this. The "more modern" approach would take us back to PDP 11 days of FLD$() because the entire record past the end of the primary key would have to be a BLOB to implement multi-typed records. It would be viciously inefficient.

All you need is RMS indexed files to have usable file sizes and limits. Something like 36TB would be nice for starters.