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From: hydrovax@nmtsun.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Translating logical names from C
Message-ID: <1287@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 88 01:05:15 GMT
References: <8801231927.AA04287@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <429@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Organization: NMT Hydrology program
Lines: 16
Summary: RMS internal file "pointers"

In article <429@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>, sarge@con.Berkeley.EDU
(Steven Sargent) writes:
> "process-permanent" logical names (e.g, SYS$INPUT) have a 4-byte
> booger prepended to their translations.
> [...]
> (Anybody know what that 4 bytes of stuff is?)

According to one of the manuals that I was looking through recently
(yes, it is for VMS :-), the first byte is an escape character
(\033) while the other three point to something called an RMS internal
file number.  The manual claims that this speeds things up quite a bit.

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