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- From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
- Subject: Re: Help a student in distress....
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.182715.24495@e2big.mko.dec.com>
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- Sender: usenet@e2big.mko.dec.com (Mr. USENET)
- Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
- References: <20242.2b4c180e@ul.ie>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:27:15 GMT
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- In article <20242.2b4c180e@ul.ie>, 9120092@ul.ie writes:
- |>
- |>Call me a buthead but I've got a few rather simplistic questions to
- |>pose to the great VMS minds out there.
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- There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.
-
- |>(1) How come DEC manuals have most of their examples in Fortran?
-
- We've taken considerable pains over the years to provide the examples in
- various major languages. I know of examples in the manuals in C, FORTRAN,
- Pascal, BASIC, COBOL, and MACRO. Unlike Unix, the VMS world does not revolve
- around a single programming language. I haven't actually counted how many
- examples there are in each language, so I can't say for sure whether or not most
- of them are in FORTRAN. I tend to think not.
-
- |>(2) In DEC's RMS who does the FAB and the RAB work, is it much different
- |> from the FAT in Messy Dos (TM) ?
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- The FAB and RAB are data structures used to communicate between the application
- program and RMS. They don't have any direct relationship to the VMS file
- system, which is called ODS-2 (On-Disk Structure version 2). ODS-2 is quite
- different from FAT. Most importantly, it's far more robust. Structural
- corruption of the file system on VMS is a rare occurrance.
-
- --PSW
-