[Info-vax] Portable OpenVMS binary data format?

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On 08/07/2018 11:20 AM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>> As far as I can tell, STREAM_LF appends a linefeed (0x0a)
>> to each record, STREAM_CR appends a carriage return (0x0d),
>> STREAM_CRLF appends a carriage return and a linefeed, and
>> STREAM appends nothing at all. [,,,]
> 
>    Yeah, except that there is no "STREAM_CRLF.  HELP FORTRAN
> Statements OPEN RECORDTYPE says:

The above Record Types look like VMS Record Formats, but they are the
Intel names, used in the referenced paper and there they are written
Stream_LF, Stream_CR, Stream_CRLF and Stream.

The corresponding VMS record formats are STREAM_LF, STREAM_CR, STREAM
and UNDEFINED. STREAM however accepts more record delimiters, aka line
terminators than CRLF (as described in paragraph 2.1.2.4, Stream Record
Format, Guide to OpenVMS File Applications).