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From:
Craig A. Berry
Date:
June 10, 2002 14:57
Subject:
RE: TYPE/CONT in Perl
Message ID:
5.1.1.5.0.20020610164953.02f74630@mail.mac.com
At 05:38 PM 6/10/2002 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>I also have some nagging memory that RMS caches filesize on open, and it's rather tough to get it to re-evaluate how big the file is without closing and reopening the file.
Hopefully "shr=put" would be enough to make it aware that other processes
might be extending the file, but I haven't tested that.
>FWIW, playing around with some of the VMS hidden commands (which I've forgotten about--it's been too long) to see what system calls are being made when you type/cont would give you an idea of how type's doing it.
SET WATCH FILE can show you more about the bowels of the XQP than you really
wanted to know. Documented in Kevin Barkes classic column here:
<http://www.kgb.com/dcl/199202.txt> and with other "undocumented" commands
here: <http://axp603.gsi.de:8080/www/eng/vms/qaa/undoccom.htmlx>.
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