VMS C & records in files

[Larry Jones]

In article <1609 at edison.GE.COM>, rja at edison.GE.COM (rja) writes:
> I'm not aware of any solution to the problem of VMS file types.  The
> problem is precisely that VMS is so record-oriented.  Even nominal 
> text files don't work like UNIX.  We find that we have to use a loop of
> successive calls to read() to fill (for example) a 512 byte buffer
> because it gives only 1 record at a time even though you asked for 512
> bytes. :-(
>   UNIX and even MS-DOS will let you read 512 bytes in a chunk so it's VMS
> that is brain-damaged in this case.
> 
>   If anyone hears of a SOLUTION to this problem with VMS C, please e-mail
> me the details.

The solution is to use STANDARD io instead of system-dependent calls like
read.  If you use fread instead of read all works wonderfully.

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