[Info-vax] VSI roadmap

[Dave Froble]

On 8/23/2023 1:09 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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().

At least not from Basic ...

> 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.

I really don't know where that is coming from.  While not my favorite, I find 
working with RMS files to be reasonable.  Perhaps we have different definitions 
of reasonable.

> 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.

Now you're talking about something like my database product, and you are 
correct, much better to have record definitions as part of the data store.

Regardless, the tech has gotten better, and that's how it should be.


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