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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/20/2023 12:18 AM, Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
> Yes indeed traditionally folks only had half a clue about RMS and vaguely know 512 was a special value and very popular.
> 
> With that they proceeded to  maximize their storage losses.
> 
> The one flag byte overhead relative file records have (plus two for variable) makes the cells larger than 512
> By default  FORTRANT/RMS will now use the default 2 block bucketsize
> Thus wasting 511 (509) bytes per 512 byte record.

I could have used recl=508.

:-)

Arne