[Info-vax] RMS internals?

[P. Sture]

In article <howard-F668D8.23181211082009 at news.newsguy.com>,
 Howard S Shubs <howard at shubs.net> wrote:

> In article <57apIjJaLEOL at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>  koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:
> 
> >    But I thought the 32K limit he was up against is applicable to any 
> >    record type.  A 16 bit length field in the RAB data is a 16 bit 
> >    length field.
> 
> It is, unless it's an UNSIGNED 16-bit length field, which this isn't.  
> I'm the OP.
> 
> If you have a CRLF-terminated ASCII file and put it raw on VMS, then 
> declare it a STREAM (either CR or LF), you'll end up with an extra 
> character which you need to account for in the programming.  Either way, 
> there's an extra step.

Instead, try this for <CR><LF> terminated records

$ SET FILE /ATTR=RFM:STM <filename>

It certainly worked for my last set of Hobbyist licenses.

-- 
Paul Sture

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