[Info-vax] Looking for NOTES (or a solution to a problem with it)

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-11-10 17.21, JF Mezei wrote:
> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>> stream_LF is a "harmless" file format in that it does not add or remove
>> anything from the file.
>
>
> No, it is evil ! It comes from Unix :-)

Oh. I agree. :-)

> The problem lies not in the created file with a bit that says "streamLF"
> instead of fixed block of nn bytes each. The problem lies with file
> transfer protocols, many of which, are designed to convert from the
> sender,s native end of line to a standard one over the wire and back to
> the receiver's standard end of line.

Yes. But I hope noone is stupid enough to try and transfer a backup 
image saveset in text mode anyway.

> So if the sender is an OS that has CR has end of line, and the receiver
> has CR-LF, then every CR in the original binary file gets transformed
> into CR-LF which changes the contents.

Right. :-)

But if you transfer in binary mode, the actual attributes in this case 
should make it a no-op.

	Johnny