[Info-vax] RMS internals?

[Howard S Shubs]

In article <002e652e$0$3042$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

> Can the FTP server be told to create text files as stream/stmlf instead
> of variable length ? That might be a solution.

It'd require me to have the users change their production behavior.  I'm 
trying to avoid that.  Users often have problems with change, which is 
unlikely to be news to you.


> The other solution is to have the files transfers binary, preserving
> whatever line termination they had on windows, then use SET
> FILE/ATTR=RFM=STMLF (or whatever "stream" variation matches that of
> windows). At that point, RMS should be able to read the records,
> assuming buffquota is big enough.

There doesn't seem to be a STREAM CRLF variant. :-D


> But if the "size" argument of a descriptor is also just 2 bytes and they
> are signed, then he will have the same problem. (It's been a while since
> I looked at the descriptor stuff, is the size 2 or 4 bytes ?).

(String) descriptors exist with bigger length fields, but regular string 
descriptors are still what they always were, for compatibility purposes.  
See 
<http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/82final/5973/5973pro_019.html#arg_desc_for
mats_chap> for details.

-- 
Don't bother with piddly crap like "gun control".
Life is 100% fatal.  Ban it.