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>.
