[Info-vax] INIT/HIGHWATER

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 2/8/2011 2:42 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article
> <1973911f-ea8f-4a73-ad2d-c11bad500c64 at q36g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
> Jose Baars<peutbaars at googlemail.com>  writes:
>
>> On 7 feb, 20:02, moro... at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
>> wrote:
>>> Highwater usually stays out of the way, most applications have no need
>>> to try to read beyond the logical end of data and thus the highwater,
>>> but when one does the read is intercepted to return "read" data of
>>> all zeroes.
>>
>> Making a zipfile with the "-V" option, and then trying to read it on
>> Windows
>> will reveal such disk data under some circumstances ( cluster size,
>> bad (ASCII FTP) transfers, never cared to precisely define them all)
>> when this zipfile has been made on a non-HIGHWATER marked disk.
>>
>> Quite embarrassing to get a question what this COBOL code is doing
>> in a zipfile. I'm not sure if this is still the case with more modern
>> versions
>> of zip.
>
> Actually, IIRC (I'm sure SMS will CMIIAR), this is a new feature to ZIP
> and is intended for VMS -->  VMS transfer to give maximum fidelity.
>

WTF is CMIIAR