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In article <1992Dec22.201616.5907@ais.com> bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright) writes:
>In article <Bzo3tJ.KGo@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney) writes:
>> For stream-lf files, just buffer those blocks, and keep track of where the
>> lf is.  It's not difficult, and you can easily get around the 65534 limit
>> that RMS places on files.  Have fun...
>                     ^^^^^^
>
>Darrin,
>
>Don't you mean `records' where I've underlined the word `files'?  This
>looks like a typo, I'm sure from other things of yours that I've read
>that you're reasonably familiar with VMS.  RMS does unfortunately keep
>the record length in a 16-bit word, hence the limitation.  If memory
>serves there are also a few places where you may get into trouble if
>the record length is > 32766 (signed 16-bit integer) :-(.  
>
>The rest of the article looks to be completely accurate.

Yes, that's a record limit, not a file limit.  I've never ran into a problem
with record lengths between 32767 and 65534, though.  65535 is reserved for
the EOF, coincidently.

>Bruce C. Wright

	Darrin
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