[Info-vax] Example of random access by record number on an RMS fixed record size, relative organization file?

[Bob Gezelter]

On Saturday, September 16, 2023 at 3:51:54 PM UTC-4, T. Kurt Bond wrote:
> Does anybody have an example program that uses random access by record 
> number on an RMS fixed record size, relative organization file they'd be 
> willing to share? I'm missing something, probably something obvious, 
> but I've not been able to get random access by record number to work. 
> I'm working in VAX MACRO (on VMS 5.5-2), but should be able to use an 
> example in any language. 
> 
> -- 
> T. Kurt Bond, tkur... at gmail.com, tkurtbond.github.io, consp.org, & tkb.tx0.org
Kurt,

I do not have a sample easily at hand, but the examples in the FORTRAN manual should be illuminating. I have used relative files in the past, and there was no particular problem.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com