[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/15/2023 10:47 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> And the secondary problem being that it's a little tricky to find the 
> last n lines in such a file organization. You'll have to do some 
> heuristics, and hope you got it right. But that usually is possible to 
> do with a high chance of success. So it could definitely be done. (I 
> have such a tool for RSX...)

It depends on the record format.

VAR,VFC => read from start or make a good guess
FIX, STM, STMLF, STMCR => no problem
UDF => "last n lines" is not defined

Arne