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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <nkr5cb$lui$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> On 2016-06-24 14:52, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> With HTTP Unix just stat() the file, and return the size as reported, 
> and everything is correct.

   Not if the protocol is depending on CRLF.