> On Apr 4, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2019-04-04 22:21, Paul Koning wrote:
>> That looks like standard RMS:VAR records, implied carriage control. That
>> means: each line is preceded by a 2 byte little endian length, and line ends
>> are not actually in the file but implicit between each line.
>
> No. It looks a little more complicated than that.
> It's certainly variable length records as you say. However, after the size is
> the record number, and after that comes the data.
>
> Relative file with variable length records maybe?
>
> Johnny
You're right, I misread words as bytes. I don't believe relative files have
record numbers. VFC file? I don't have much exposure to those, they are a VMS
invention not seen on PDP11s that I can recall. I seem to remember a
particular VFC type used for listing files, where the fixed prefix is a line
number.
paul
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