[Info-vax] Unable to install freeware

[osuvman50 at gmail.com]

On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 3:43:29 AM UTC-4, Richard Levitte wrote:
> 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 :-)

Large parts of any OS are record oriented.  A passwd file in unix/linux is a collection of records, each describing a user.  Unix chose one convention for representing records and VMS chose another and intertwined it more with file system.