VMS vs. UNIX file system

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <4136 at bsu-cs.UUCP> by dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi):
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| In article <1127 at fredonia.UUCP> mazumdar at 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.
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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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