VMS vs. UNIX file system

[The Beach Bum]

In article <68855 at sun.uucp> guy at gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>Umm, as others have already pointed out, UNIX doesn't use '\n' as a record
>separator; it uses it as a *line* separator.  UNIX - like VMS - ultimately (at
>the kernel level) implements files as a sequence of bytes (RMS sits on top of
>QIOs that read virtual blocks of the file, *n'est ce pas?*).

vms has file attributes directly associated with the file.  qio does
read virtual blocks - but you can't easily convince rms to read a file
in some mode other than the mode the file was created with.  if you
have an isam file you want to read as a 80 character fixed length record
file, it's qio or nothing [ but grief ]
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