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

[David Froble]

Johnny Billquist wrote:

Ok Johnny, been jerking your chain a bit here, and probably Brian has been doing 
so also.

:-)

Yes, there are times when a byte count would be helpful.

Yes, VMS is the tail being wagged, not the dog.  Which leads nicely into 
allowing me to call *ix the DOG!

:-)

But, to get serious for a moment, (yes, I can do that now and then), in practice 
perhaps it's not such a big issue.  For example, I'm not everybody, but, I do 
not send large pieces of data.  I've never sent anything that could not easily 
be read into memory prior to transmission.  Got to ask, in general, how often is 
rather large text files transmitted to / from a web server?

If I FTP a data file, it's a binary transmission, and the byte count is simply 
filesize in blocks * 512.  I have moved large data files.

Ok, in custom communications I've implemented, the byte count goes first.