NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/os/vms/19764

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From: [e-mail] (Vance Haemmerle x4021)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Apending a file at the end of mail.
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Date: 23 Dec 92 06:37:43 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>I'm sorry, Carl, that we can't all be like you and use brain-dead
>editors like TPU that are built into VMS.
>
>That's why REAL EXPERTS like yourself do the procedure() mumble mumble
>in tpu, while the rest of us do it in two or three keystrokes in EDT.
>Of course I don't mean Digital's EDT, I mean callable EDT with a shell
>around it that supports spawning, etc.
>

  And to think... TPU becomes the default editor under VMS V6.0.
  Oh the horror! ;-)

  Anyway, here's someone's question I couldn't answer after spending
  lots of time with the DOC CD-ROM.  Is there a system service or
  Run-Time Library routine that returns the amount of blocks allocated
  to a file?  Something like stat() in C, but the allocated space, not
  the used space.  I hope the answer doesn't involve reading the
  directory file format manulally or seting up RMS control structures.

   Vance Haemmerle                              [e-mail]
   Support Systems Analyst, Senior              [e-mail]
   Lunar & Planetary Lab
   University of Arizona