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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00B0B3EA.9F7943FA at SendSpamHere.ORG>,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> 
> OK... So we should all toss fixed, VFC, VAR, STM and STMCF formats and use
> STMLF exclusively.
> 
> Again, the filesize (in bytes) CAN be had but they'll not mean what you want
> them to mean to your protocol transfer.  Again, I don't see that as any VMS
> problem;  I see it as a protocol limitation imposed by all of the *ixers out
> there that have, parochially, defined these protocols RFCs.

   Hm.   Windows stores text lines with CRLF separators, so that's 2
   bytes meta-data per line of text.  VAR stores text with leaing
   lengths in 16 bit words, so that's 2 bytes meta-data per line of
   text.

   Would seem to me that VAR isn't even a problem.  When you do the
   conversion to the protocol's CRLF separators, you get the same total
   bytes.