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VMS / OpenVMS FDL -RMS File Description Language - for x86 Intel Linux


Implemetation of VMS / OpenVMS File Description Language for Linux and Windows. VX/FDL used a VMS FDL to create RMS files of all organizations Indexed, Relative, Sequential and all Record Formats: Sequential and Fixed.

VX/RT allows you to import the FDL for an FRMS file from VMS / OpenVMS and use VX/DCL to recreate the file with identical structure on x86 Intel Linux.

In addition to the DCL command line interface, VX/RT also provides a call compatible library for all of the FDL$() API's

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Creating a VX/RMS file from an VMS / OpenVMS FDL

CREATE/FDL=fdl-filespec [filespec]

Create an RMS file from an FDL specification.

Creating an VMS / OpenVMS FDL from a VX/RMS file

ANALYZE/FDL/RMS_FILE filespec[,...]

Creates an FDL file after analyzng the specified RMS file.

VMS / OpenVMS FDL Commands in VX/DCL

CREATE/FDL

ANALYZE/FDL

VMS / OpenVMS FDL$ call compatible library for x86 Intel Linux

FDL$CREATE
FDL$GENERATE
FDL$PARSE
FDL$RELEASE