Re: open source, porting, etc. (was RE: more observations(andquestions) on the SYS$I18N_LOCALE dirs)

[Brad Hughes]

Dan Sugalski wrote:
[...]
> >Not that it's an easy task, but wouldn't modifying the PerlIO abstraction
> >layer to only use RMS calls accomplish this?  It would require someone
> >who really knows his XABs from his RABs, but could still be done using
> >only the available RMS interface.
> 
> Nope. How do you lock a range of bytes in a stream file, or a range of
> bytes in a record-oriented file that doesn't correspond to a record?

This is VMS.  You don't do things like that.  See previous rant.