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- From: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.databases.ingres
- Subject: Re: Ingres questions followup
- Summary: VMS is dumb.
- Keywords: byte
- Message-ID: <5854@osc.COM>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 20:13:09 GMT
- References: <11NOV199216120229@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> <BxLBKH.2w0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Reply-To: Joe Keane <jgk@osc.com>
- Followup-To: comp.databases
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- 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.
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- 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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- Joe Keane, professional programmer
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