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From: sasaki@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU (Marty Sasaki)
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Subject: read() in VAX C 2.1 (VMS 4.2)
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Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 23:23:11 EST
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It's a feature. You have to remember that VMS doesn't really know how
to deal with files that don't have a record type. In fact, files like
.exe's which seem to be without type, are fixed length records of 512
bytes.

You can do block read and writes regardless of the underlying format,
but you have to be careful to keep things straight since the files do
have record attributes.

Good luck.
			Marty Sasaki