[Info-vax] RMS internals?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
> 

Just because other systems allow records greater than 32K does not mean 
that files have to be written with records that big.

The only format that is close to being universal is fixed length 80 byte 
records.  Many systems can block and/or deblock those fixed length records.

Either the tapes must be written with record lengths < 32K or they must 
be read on another system!!