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- From: mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: Ingres questions followup
- Keywords: byte
- Message-ID: <Bxx7A7.7xL@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:32:30 GMT
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- In article <5854@osc.COM> Joe Keane <jgk@osc.com> writes:
- >In article <BxLBKH.2w0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- >mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney) writes:
- >>Traditionally, files under VMS are limited to 65534 byte records. That's
- >>because for normal variable length record files, the record length is stored
- >>in the two bytes before the record.
- >
- >That is so dumb. What kind of operating system is it? It looks like a C-64.
- >I mean, sometimes you can get away with using less bytes if you're clever.
- >But having variable-length fields break when you get to 64KB is unacceptable.
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- So don't use them. VMS doesn't make you.
-
- BTW, it has nothing to do with the OS. RMS is basically a separate entity
- (a *record* manager) built on the file system.
-
- Darrin
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