At 8:59 AM -0400 9/1/00, Tom Pfau wrote:
>According to the RMS manual, there's a separate field in the RAB that tells
>RMS where to place the VFC header bytes. If this field isn't filled in
>before issuing a SYS$GET, the information is discarded. I don't think it's
>possible to set this field through perl.
It just might be possible using VMS::Stdio::vmssysopen and passing
something like "rfm=vfc" in the last argument, though I have never
done this and don't make any guarantees. You should also be able to
control the fixed header size with "fsz=n" where n is the size you
want. Look at the docs to creat() in the C RTL manual. If you
simply want to retrieve the fixed header size of an existing file,
it's in the stat structure.
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