[Info-vax] RMS internals?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <1sednbLLk8nJuh3XnZ2dnUVZ_sOdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> That's not quite true!  FTP appends the LOCAL LINE TERMINATOR in text 
> mode.

   FTP imposes a standard CRLF during transmission of files in ASCII
   mode.  What the client and server do with it is none of the FTP
   standard's business.  For example, a VMS client or server sending 
   a variable length, stmcr, or stmlf file in ASCII mode will replace 
   those separators with CRLF before transmiting (most likely by using 
   RMS to read the lines as records and then appending the CRLF).  As
   a matter of fact, any record oriented file could be transfered
   in ASCII mode this way, although the other end might not know
   anything usefull to do with it.

   Continuing the example, typically VMS clients and servers receiving 
   a file in ASCII mode strip the CRLF and save the file as records in 
   a variable length record format.  In Multinet, you can alternatively 
   tell the Multinet client or server to save them as fixed length records.

   UNIX, Windows, MacOS, ... all do the appropriate thing when saving
   or reading files transfered in ASCII mode.  But FTP only standardizes 
   the transmission format.