[Info-vax] VSI roadmap

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-08-23, David Jones <osuvman50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 8:28:06?AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> That the record is a series of opaque bytes, instead of structured 
>> fields with the knowledge about the fields built into RMS itself.
>> Simon. 
>
> To support any number of Unix applications reading of files, the C runtime
> includes fgets() to return what is logically a record. So what?

1) Nobody is working with RMS ISAM files by using fgets().

2) Have you ever seriously worked with RMS ISAM files in production use ?
I have, and they are a bloody great big pain in the backside to manage
and make record changes to, even minor changes.

Having ISAM files where the records are a series of structured fields
instead of something that looks like a digital version of a punched card
would be something that would have been a hell of a lot easier to maintain.

Simon.

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