[Info-vax] RMS internals?
P. Sture
paul.nospam at sture.ch
Mon Aug 24 11:49:12 EDT 2009
In article
<22c754f4-872f-4703-b97a-f107e62a99e9 at j21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
"Hein, Nashua NH" <heinvandenheuvel at gmail.com> wrote:
> In a different reply Howard wrote:
> > There doesn't seem to be a STREAM CRLF variant. :-D
>
> There is. It is plain 'stream' aka STM.
> But be careful... it comes with some surprise semantics (to be RSTS/E
> compatible?)
>
> RMS REF MAN: FAB$B_RFM ... "Records are delimited by FF, VT, LF, or CR
> LF,
> and all leading zeros are ignored."
I vaguely remember something like that in RT-11, where IIRC binary
zeroes were ignored in certain (long forgotten) circumstances.
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Paul Sture
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