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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: VMS vs. UNIX file system
Message-ID: <4136@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 88 16:37:20 GMT
References: <411@marob.MASA.COM> <3597@encore.UUCP> <3438@crash.cts.com> <3625@encore.UUCP> <1127@fredonia.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <1127@fredonia.UUCP> mazumdar@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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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi