[Info-vax] Streaming a File on OpenVMS with Caché

[Steven Schweda]

> Seems to me there is.  The recieving end has a program
> that, obviously, expects a particular input.  Tell the
> sending side(s) the format that the data needs to be in and
> don't accept anything else.

   I love your customer orientation, but please explain how a
remote user on a non-VMS system can determine the record
format of a file when it arrives at (or is reconstituted on)
the VMS system.

> [...] the only way [...]

   In my experience, statements like that are practically
always wrong.