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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-06-24 18:54, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, since I only read this today, holding the breath would have turned 
him blue... But an answer was given.

	Johnny