[Info-vax] Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was Re: FREESPADRIFT)

[John E. Malmberg]

On 6/18/2016 3:54 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
> cf VMS only storing the block sizes of files rather than the number of
> bytes; this can be problematic for utilities ported from a system which
> has an easy/cheap way to supply the exact size in bytes.

Part of that is because VMS does not always store all the bytes in the 
file that will show up when the file is read by the *nix utility.

The file attributes tell if and what line terminators should be supplied 
when the file is read.

The only way to get the byte count for certain file types is to read the 
entire file.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net_work