On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Larson, John E. <jolar...@visa.com> wrote:
> My apologies as well if the "tone" in my wording sounded offensive. > I thought that I have picked apart the index and help files and author's help > files pretty well. > I never referred to NETDATA files, I was purely commenting on the apparently > only one option for reading a VMARC FILE, which requires two full reads of > the data, one for VMARC UNPK, and then another to actually read the unpacked > file. Tone?? Guess that I'm happy that I only have to read VMARC files only > twice, considering things could always be worse, I'm pleased that I don't > have to re-read VMARC files 3 or 4 times before I'm actually processing the > data... You're right about VMARC - it just never happened. I did look at the VMARC code in the past, but was distracted by real work pretty quick. I guess I mostly use VMARC to transfer a bunch of files, not to peel records out of one of the members... It's not very exciting either because there's no index in them, so you read it sequentially anyway. I did something in the past to get at least a listing of the files in it (VMARC LIST does not show the time stamp that I wanted to compare with what's on disk). From there I generate VMARC UNPACK commands for the files I wanted to get. | Rob
