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

[Hein RMS van den Heuvel]

On Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 7:33:10 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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. 
> > 

> I could have used recl=508. 

Yes you could, and so could have hundreds of commercial programmers but the point is they didn't!
They all picked 512 and proceeded to add 'filler' bytes to their record definitions 'just in case' just like you did.

:-)

Hein