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From: egisin%watmath.waterloo.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (Eric Gisin)
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Subject: RMS with non-file-oriented devices
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VMS documentation says almost nothing regarding RMS IO
on non-file-oriented devices; so I have a few questions.
I'm interested in details on IO on mailboxes and network devices.
Can you use multiple buffers and read-ahead and write-behind
to improve performance on these devices?
Do GETs/PUTs always translate into a single QIOW?
What is the default buffer size of 256 on NET devices used for by RMS?
	Eric Gisin, egisin@waterloo.{edu|csnet|cdn}