[Info-vax] proper format for JPEG files

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sat Jul 23 18:33:58 EDT 2011


On 7/23/2011 3:52 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> What is the "proper" format for JPEG files on VMS, in particular if they
> are served by a web server and displayed in a web browser?  I have some
> which are
>
>     Record format:      Fixed length 512 byte records
>     Record attributes:  None
>
> and some which are
>
>     Record format:      Stream_LF, maximum 0 bytes, longest 32767 bytes
>     Record attributes:  Carriage return carriage control
>
> and both work.  (The former were transferred via FTP from a Windows
> system (sorry, I don't have a VMS machine with a DVD reader) and the
> latter saved from the web via a web browser.)

I am oldfashioned - I would use FIX512 for binary files.

Arne




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