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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: VAX c
- Date: 26 Dec 1992 07:35:50 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- Message-ID: <1hh20mINNfjb@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <24DEC199220084219@spades.aces.com> <Bzt6EF.Est@dale.cts.com>,<25DEC199221083299@spades.aces.com>
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- In article <25DEC199221083299@spades.aces.com>, gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546) writes:
- >#So how do I make sure that the buffer gets onto disk? (in my case), I asked.
- =#They told me that there is an "unsupported and undocumented" function that I
- =#could call. Thanks, but no thanks, I said.
- =
- =I didn't realize I'd have to hold your hand through this. You
- =wanted it out of VAX C, I showed you how. Now you want it out
- =of RMS and you won't even look up SYS$FLUSH. Shame on you.
-
- =P.S. If you can't figure out how to go from a stream ID (FILE *) to
- = a FAB, please play with the listings just a tad more.
-
- Actually, you don't have to go all the way to the FAB, just to the RAB. And
- the "unsupported and undocumented" function that DEC support was talking about
- was almost certainly the one that returns the RAB associated with a file
- descriptor.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-