Ralf

Contents

Chapter 1
1	Introduction
1.1	Purpose of RALF
1.2	Implementation
Chapter 2
2	Installation
2.1	Requirements
2.2	Savesets
2.3	Invoking VMSINSTAL
2.3.1	Target Directory
2.3.2	Documentation
2.4	Files
2.5	Postinstallation Tasks
2.6	Sample Installation
2.7	Rebuilding RALF
Chapter 3
3	RALF Routines
3.1	Ralf_Open
3.1.1	Arguments
3.1.2	Description
3.1.3	Return Values
3.2	Ralf_Close
3.2.1	Arguments
3.2.2	Description
3.2.3	Return Values
3.3	Ralf_Read_Record
3.3.1	Arguments
3.3.2	Description
3.3.3	Return Values
3.4	Ralf_Name_To_Fid
3.4.1	Arguments
3.4.2	Description
3.4.3	Return Values
3.5	Ralf_Open_By_Fid
3.5.1	Arguments
3.5.2	Description
3.5.3	Return Values
3.6	Obtaining File Header Information
3.6.1	Item Codes provided by Ralf
3.6.2	Setting internal Buffer size
Chapter 4
4	Linking with RALF
4.1	Linking with the Object Library
4.2	Linking with the Shareable Library
4.3	Which approach is better?
Chapter 5
5	Sample Utilities
5.1	PEEK program
5.1.1	Parameters & Qualifiers
5.1.2	Restrictions
5.2	FILEINFO program
5.2.1	Parameters & Qualifiers
5.2.2	Restrictions
5.3	Compiling & Linking the Utilities