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In article <C02wyJ.56s@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney) writes:
>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.

Before I getted flamed on this, let me add something else.  RMS *does*
provide calls that allow for file management ($create, $rename, $delete, etc.).
That's nice, but it doesn't mean it's the file system.

If you can't grok this concept, consider this: the VAX C RTL also provides
calls (creat, delete, rename, etc.).  Would you call it the file system?
Didn't think so...

	Darrin
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