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Subject: Re: Getting file attributes
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Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 01:26:13 EST
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In a recent article Sid Penstone said:
>< How does one determine from inside a program whether an existing disk file
>< (FORM="UNFORMATTED") is RECORDTYPE="VARIABLE"  .....
>
>        There is a C function stat() that returns some information about
>a file. ..............      You can identify
>the values FAB$C_FIX or FAB$C_VAR in the st_fab_rfm field of the structure
>...

I'm sorry; this won't work. As I explained privately to the original
poster, "Segented" records are a concept known *only* to Fortran. They
consist of variable records with a couple extra bytes tacked on; the
entire rest of the universe just sees plain variable records and isn't
aware that there's extra information in there.

BTW, FAB$C_FIX refers to "fixed-length" records. Is something different.

(But I'm glad to know stat() returns actual RMS info - could be handy!)

garry wiegand   (garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu)