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

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In article <yE7BjmIxxkSS at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>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?

Maybe you'll get an answer but I'd suggest you don't hold your breath.

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