[Info-vax] proper file format, attributes for non-binary files served by a web server

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/22/2012 12:35 AM, Steven Schweda wrote:
> On Jan 21, 11:13 am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
> undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article
>> <882908ae-9224-4a88-9de9-32b10b66a... at q8g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
>>
>> Steven Schweda<sms.antin... at gmail.com>  writes:
>>>     When dealing with any program which uses the C RTL,
>>> Record format: Stream_LF will be most natural.  For general
>>> portability reasons, I try to use Stream_LF format for any
>>> text files which will get sent to a non-VMS system.
>>
>> But this is not necessary for with files on VMS which are never
>> transferred elsewhere EXCEPT VIA WWW, right?
>
>     Around here, a file which gets served by the Web server
> may also get served by the FTP server, and it might also get
> put into a Zip archive.  Perhaps every program can handle
> variable-length records properly, and perhaps not.  I would
> rather have Stream_LF files everywhere, and not have to think
> any more about them.

A correct VMS server program should handle all valid
VMS formats for text files.

Assuming that non correct VMS servers would prefer
stream_lf is a weird assumption.

Arne