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Re: Understanding RMS File Structure

 
Ian Miller.
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Re: Understanding RMS File Structure

There is much detail on RMS structure in

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freeware60/rms_tools/rms_tuning.ppt


If you have a specific question then can you start a new thread as this makes it easier to find things.
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Ian Miller.
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Re: Understanding RMS File Structure

There is much detail on RMS structure in

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freeware60/rms_tools/rms_tuning.ppt


If you have a specific question then can you start a new thread as this makes it easier to find things.

See also
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Ian Miller.
Honored Contributor

Re: Understanding RMS File Structure

There is much detail on RMS structure in

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freeware60/rms_tools/rms_tuning.ppt


If you have a specific question then can you start a new thread as this makes it easier to find things.

See also

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/731FINAL/4506/4506pro_005.html#021_indexedfileorganization
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Ian Miller.
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Re: Understanding RMS File Structure

I see my previous reply arrived three times - I was having trouble accessing the forum
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term1976
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Re: Understanding RMS File Structure

Hello,

thanks for reply. Presentation is very useful, but there is no information on Prologue and Areas structure.

Alex.
Hein van den Heuvel
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Re: Understanding RMS File Structure


That would be because in 25 years playing with RMS indexed files I never found those interting. Just use ANAL/RMS/INT to 'see' the data or extract the defintions from LIB.MLB (or the C version) as:

$libr/extr=$areadef/out=sys$output sys$library:lib.mlb

What problem are you trying to solve?
(and as indicated, perhaps start a fresh topic for the exact problem.)

Regards,
Hein.
Ian Miller.
Honored Contributor

Re: Understanding RMS File Structure

another tool for exploring RMS indexed files is DIX
http://www.oooovms.dyndns.org/dix/
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term1976
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Re: Understanding RMS File Structure

Hello,

the problem is following, I have RMS indexed file out of OpenVMS system and I need to extract information from this file for further processing.
I can parse it by myself but I need to know the structure of the file and how data is stored.

Thanks in advance,
Alex
Duncan Morris
Honored Contributor

Re: Understanding RMS File Structure

Alex,

trying to parse an RMS Indexed file on a foreign OS is like trying to reinvent the wheel!

You would get on far quicker by converting the original indexed file to a sequential file before passing it your own system.

If you need more help, please open a new topic, so that you can assign points to the relpies.

Regards,

Duncan
Duncan Morris
Honored Contributor

Re: Understanding RMS File Structure

Alex,

trying to parse an RMS Indexed file on a foreign OS is like trying to reinvent the wheel!

You would get on far quicker by converting the original indexed file to a sequential file before passing it your own system.

If you need more help, please open a new topic, so that you can assign points to the replies.

Regards,

Duncan