[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-07-16 20:09, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

Right. But in this case, the record format was given.

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

And in this case it was VFC. And as I said - you can usually make a good 
guess.

   Johnny