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From: FERGUSON@TMASL.EXXON.COM
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Subject: ms_$mapl and file types
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Date: 27 Apr 89 13:34:00 GMT
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I'm at sr9.7, so this question probably doesn't apply to sr10 users:

    Is there a way create files using ms_$mapl that aren't of type 'nil'?
    I need the functionality of mapping a program pointer into a disk
    file without all the virtual memory swapping, but need to use
    these files in other applications. Someday, I'll modify all of
    my programs to use ms_$mapl, but for now I'd also like to be able
    to use fopen() to read these same files.

    I guess at sr10, everything is 'unstruct', but I have peripherals, and
    therefore can't go to sr10 until probably this fall.

Thanks in advance,
Scott Ferguson
ferguson@erevax.bitnet
Exxon Research & Engineering