[Info-vax] RMS internals?

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Mon Aug 10 18:34:43 EDT 2009


Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <howard-E4439F.13574308082009 at news.newsguy.com>, Howard S Shubs <howard at shubs.net> writes:
>> In article <0076b30e$0$7155$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
>>  JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> If a VMS native file didn't have CRLF at the end, but Windows added
>>> them, then it is likely the original VMS->Windows transfer mucked the file.
>> Original was Windows->VMS, as the file was created on Windows.
>>
>    Sounds like it simply should have been transfered as a text file.
>    Are you trying to compensate for all the mistakes the user could
>    make?  It isn't really an RMS function to fix those, you're kind of
>    rolling on your own.

He is trying to solve the problem that most non-VMS files has valid
text files with rec len > 32K, but VMS does not.

Arne




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