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- From: mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney)
- Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
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- References: <1992Dec29.044012.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> <3623363@zl2tnm.gen.nz>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:42:18 GMT
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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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