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In article <3623363@zl2tnm.gen.nz> don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
>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....)

Okay, so the "file system" books cover RMS.  That means that they're not
file system books, and that they've been misnamed.  No, I'm not joking.

RMS: RECORD Managment (manglement) Services.  Perhaps it takes a genious to
see that this is a set of Services to Manage Records.  A record is not a file,
but instead a part of a file.  File management is handled via $QIO calls.

And, no, the IO User's Guide is not difficult by any means, at least not if
you understand how to use $QIO.  It has many excellent examples, and it covers
the file system.

	Darrin
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