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From: dave@terminus.UUCP (VAX Headroom @ The End of the Galaxy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Translating logical names from C
Summary: RMS and logical names
Message-ID: <40@terminus.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 88 04:10:44 GMT
References: <8801231927.AA04287@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <429@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
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I believe the first 4 bytes at the beginning of things like
SYS$INPUT and SYS$OUTPUT are an ISI, and RMS internal stream identifier.
These files are always open and rms uses this to identify the "channel"
being used to communicate with the entity pointed to by the logical name.
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