[Info-vax] RMS internals?

[JF Mezei]

Howard S Shubs wrote:

> Only after I requested it.  They were originally transferred using ASCII 
> mode, which is what our end users will actually do.  With what I saw, 
> I'm not going to worry about it.  If the users transfer using binary 
> mode, the program they're using just won't work properly.  If my client 
> wants me to fix it, I'm sure they'll let me know.


If your client trasnfered in binary mode, you would have raw data with
CR-LFs terminating records.  (or whatever line termination sequence
windows uses). It would be easier to parse since there would be no RMS
interpretation of the data.

Binary/image mode usually results in a file created on VMS with fixed
length 512 byte records (aka: 1 record per block) and no record
attributes. So when you read the data, you get the data uninterpreted by
RMS.