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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: VMS vs. UNIX file system
Message-ID: <12656@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 23:01:43 GMT
References: <411@marob.MASA.COM> <3597@encore.UUCP> <3438@crash.cts.com> <3625@encore.UUCP> <1127@fredonia.UUCP> <4136@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <4136@bsu-cs.UUCP> by dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi):
+---------------
| In article <1127@fredonia.UUCP> mazumdar@fredonia.UUCP (Jin Mazumdar) writes:
| >Although UNIX does not have fixed length
| >records...
| 
| It certainly does.  Look at the structure of /etc/utmp and /usr/adm/wtmp
| or equivalent files on your system.
+---------------

The programs that use those files use fixed-length "records"; the file system
itself does not enforce them, however.  The difference is that you don't have
to tell your favorite binary editor that it must open /etc/utmp with a record
size of (sizeof (struct utmp)) bytes.

++Brandon
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