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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <nkhf9i$7s3$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> Uh? Say what? Everything in TCP/IP is just a stream of bytes. There are 
> no blocks, nothing is sent in any multiple of blocks.
> (And besides, text files in Unix do not have CF and LF in them. They 
> just have LF. Which is why I was complaining about Unix ftp 
> implementations, which often lies about file size, and sometimes cheat 
> when transferring in text mode. These protocols were not designed by 
> Unix people...)

   So hwo does UNIX solve it?  By lieing about it?  Does that work
   anyhow?  If so, then why can't VMS lie about it?  Or do both UNIX
   and VMS have to read the file twice to get it right?