Monks,

I need to be able to read and update an RMS Indexed file that is currently sat on an OpenVMS machine. However... The perl script is running on a linux box that has access to the files on the vms box via an nfs disk share...

I know there's a module called rms.pm but that only appears to be for vmsPerl and i need the script to run from the linux side... There are a host of issues governing that decision...

I've proved I can see the files by simply using sysopen and looping around a sysread command and I get data... heavily disguised as garbage...

I need to be able to read via a particular index on the file and be able to update records and write them back...

Has anybody done this already and can provide some guidance?

Thanks in advance...

pete

In reply to How to read RMS indexed files? From Linux!!! by petecoales

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