On April 4, 2019 5:06:41 PM PDT, Paul Koning <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 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 > >_______________________________________________ >Simh mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
For each line there is a 2 byte length, 2 byte line number followed by the data bytes... One more thing is that each line is halfword aligned with padded null bytes. -ron -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
