1 EXTRACT, Utilities, Extract records from VMS file     . EXTRACT V1.6   - Extract records from VMS file Written by Pat Rankin   * VAX binaries produced under VAX/VMS V5.5-20 Alpha binaries produced under OpenVMS Alpha V6.2  A EXTRACT is a VMS-specific utility for quickly selecting groups of @ records out of files.  It has options for choosing them from theF beginning via /HEAD=n, the middle via /RECORD=(START=m,END=n,COUNT=k),@ or the end via /TAIL=n.  Selected records can optionally undergoA various transformations such as alphabetic case conversion, white B space condensation or tab expansion, translation between ASCII andB EBCDIC, or selection of specific sets of columns.  See extract.doc8 for more details or extract.hlp for full command syntax.  C EXTRACT can be defined as a native DCL command or used as a foreign B command.  The source code is written in Fortran and should compileE as-is for either Alpha or VAX.  File access is accomplished by direct A RMS calls rather than through the Fortran run-time library and is  generally quite fast.     