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Le 13/05/2013 21:13, Robert A Duff a écrit :
> I haven't used VMS in years, but I recall Record Management Services
> being a nightmare!  Far more complexity than could possibly be worth
> the functionality provided.
> 
Maybe you used it from C... I remember VMS had to invent new access
methods specifically for C, because the VMS view of a file was too high
level for C.

> Text_IO ought to provide simple streams-of-characters abstractions,
> and what it looks like on the disk, or what it looks like to the
> OS should be hidden at that level.
Sorry, but I see a stream of characters as a lower level abstraction
than an organised sequence of pages, lines, and individual characters
(not that I am especially fan of pages)

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