[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-07-17 kl. 12:52, skrev 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
> 

But, "read from start" is the same as TYPE without /TAIL. And that is
what I do when I get that error from TYPE/TAIL. Just TYPE the log file
and let it scroll to the end, the net result is the same as when using
/tail, the last 24 (or so) lines are on the screen. And besides, more
lines are available based on the size of my scroll-back buffer in the
emulator, usually 20000 or 200000 lines.

   Jan-Erik.