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zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
> > 		*Volume 6B*
>                          ^
> Perhaps you could tell the nice reader what else is in vol 6.

Oh alright.  6A is the other *File System* book, including:

	Guide to File Applications
	ANALYZE/RMS
	CONVERT
	File Definition Language
	and the National Character Set stuff (why?  I dunno.)

All good clean RMS stuff.  To get into the stuff the previous poster 
described as the "file system", you have to head for the I/O User's 
book.  ("User's"?  That one is one of the more formidable volumes....)

> But U*** still loses because it has no way of telling the application what
> TYPE of file structure it is...

Exactly.  Well, you can pull kludgery with magic numbers....

> Never a truer word spoken... The intertwining of the C language and Unix IO
> is a *HUGE* mistake.

I personally believe VAXCRTL is a serious impediment to DEC's claims of 
"openness" in VMS.  Life's too short to have to go re-implementing half
the RTL whenever you try to get anything done because the standard stuff
is too slow, too buggy or more often than not, both.

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