Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!elroy!mahendo!jplgodo!wlbr!scgvaxd!trwrb!jumper
From: jumper@trwrb.UUCP (Gregory S. Jumper)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Translating logical names from C
Message-ID: <4727@trwrb.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 88 20:23:50 GMT
References: <8801231927.AA04287@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <429@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Reply-To: jumper@trwrb.dsd.trw.com.UUCP (Gregory S. Jumper)
Organization: TRW Space and Defense Sector, Redondo Beach, CA
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The four-byte header in the equivalence string of a logical name which refers
to a process-permanent file contains the "escape" and "null" characters,
followed by two bytes representing the RMS Internal File Identifier for that
process-permanent file.  This header allows for faster access to these files.


Greg Jumper

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