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From: ddb@mrvax.DEC (DAVID DYER-BENNET MRO1-2/L14 DTN 231-4076)
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Subject: VMS / RMS
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 10:01:03 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 22 10:01:03 1985
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NO NO NO!!!  For the time after the last time (somebody else said this
"for the last time" a while ago), RMS is NOT the lowest level file
handler on VMS, it is NOT part of the kernel!  RMS is a subroutine library
that user programs call if they want to read RMS files.  The lowest level
file handling (implementation of Files-11 ODL-2) is in the f11acp process
(on older versions of VMS) or implemented in the xqp code in the kernel (on
newer versions of VMS).  This code implements file naming and block IO.

There are enough legitemate complaints about RMS!  Let's not waste time
on bogus ones.

		-- David Dyer-Bennet
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