Re: quiz for Sequential_IO Read

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 03/09/2017 à 22:17, Dennis Lee Bieber a écrit :
>> In every language, the format of a binary file is known only to the
>> compiler (I remember having been warned about this when I learned
>> FORTRAN - a long time ago); the purpose of these files is to save data,
>> then reread them from the same program, or at least the same language
>> with the same compiler.
>>
> 	Record Management Services (RMS) were the common underlying record
> handling system in the VMS operating system. It was responsible for
> allowing practically any language on the system to read files created by
> any other language. Whether fixed-length sequential, variable-length
> sequential, direct access, and keyed access.

But in VMS, everything was standardized and compatible (sigh...).
However, a VMS binary file was not necessary compatible with a compiler
for a different OS.

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