[Info-vax] Unable to install freeware

Richard Levitte richard at levitte.org
Sun Jun 19 03:43:28 EDT 2016


Den söndag 19 juni 2016 kl. 03:35:09 UTC+2 skrev lawren... at gmail.com:
> On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 12:50:27 PM UTC+12, Richard Levitte wrote:
> 
> > You *could* try this and see how it makes a difference afterwards:
> > 
> > $ set file/attrib=(rfm:stmlf,rat:cr) vtfm.com
> 
> Wonder why VMS fought kicking and screaming against bringing in the idea of stream-formatted files, and still wants to insist that everything be formatted as a record...

Well, it's a record oriented OS from the start (*ahem* I assume it is.  It has been since 1989, when I started working with it).

Record orientation has its benefits as well...  for example, you don't really have to wonder and try to heuristically determine if a file is binary or not, the record format will tell you :-)

Cheers,
Richard



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