[Info-vax] RMS internals?

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

In comp.os.vms Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
(snip, someone wrote)
 
<>    FTP imposes a standard CRLF pair at the end of each line of text,
<>    when transfering as a text file.  Of course, TCP doesn't need to
<>    know about this.
 
< That's not quite true!  FTP appends the LOCAL LINE TERMINATOR in text 
< mode.  Unix destinations get <LF>.  DOS/Windows get <CR><LF>.  I think 
< there's something that uses <CR> by itself but I can't recall what it 
< is; maybe Apple/Mac.  VMS gets "counted strings".

That is for the receiving end.  For the sending end, the local
line terminators are converted to CRLF.  

If you transfer non-text files between unix systems in text mode,
any CRLF pairs in the original file will be converted to LF at
the receiving end.  I believe that done right the receiving end
on a unix system does CRLF --> LF conversion, instead of just
removing CR, reducing the probability of damage, but not 
eliminating it.

-- glen