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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-06-23 21:27, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <nkhctd$2us$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> On 2016-06-23 19:05, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> HP Alliance One distributes PAKs as a text file that is stream (chock full
>>> of <CR>s and <LF>s).  I'm supposed to execute this to install the Alliance
>>> One PAKs.  Some people (on VMS) find this a nuisance because of the <CR>s
>>> and <LF>s littering the data (because it's delivered via HTTP from HP's A1
>>> web site) cause DCL to complain.  I simply change the file's attributes to
>>> RFM=STM and all's well.  You, too, could convert your files to RFM=STM and
>>> then, your prayers have been answered.  What YOU want to transmit via HTTP
>>> is all right there in the file and you should be able to compute the file
>>> size as well.  But, it's so much easier to fault VMS, its file system, and
>>> RMS because it's not understood.
>>
>> Sorry, but that is not the correct answer.
>
> Why not?

Converting is also reading it once, and then reading it again. Same as 
just figuring out the size by reading it.

You only even get a potential gain from this, if you then cache either 
the converted file, or the figured out size (I would actually just cache 
the figured out size, since that takes way less memory.)
Not to mention that converting everything to stream files is not always 
what I want. Not to mention the issues with keeping track of, and 
maintaining duplicates of files, and the amount of extra disk space this 
might take. As mentioned in another response...

	Johnny