Talk:Record Management Services
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[edit]This caused a lot of problems in the 1990s -- programs written using standard "C" libraries usually had to have their data files in STREAM-LF, but to have any hope of transferring a file in anything but the simplest plain text format to another operating system, the file almost always had to be in FIXED-512, so you had to use the BILF program (not provided standard with VMS) to convert back and forth between the two, and KERMIT-VMS had a special "FIXED" mode which was different from "BINARY" mode (and not at all obvious that you had to use it for successful file transfer), etc. AnonMoos (talk) 15:36, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
- Sounds a lot easier than the EBCDIC to ASCII conversion for IBM users. Not to mention conversion from FB, VB, or even D record formats. Gah4 (talk) 00:07, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
There is mention of RMS in Access method, in comparison to the way OS/360 and successors do I/O. Otherwise, it seems that much could be added to this page. Gah4 (talk) 00:08, 18 July 2020 (UTC)