[Info-vax] Portable OpenVMS binary data format?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/7/2018 2:36 AM, Louis Krupp 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. If you were writing text, it would make sense to append a
> linefeed or a carriage return or both, but since you're writing binary
> data, I don't believe there's any point in appending anything at all.

ACCESS='SEQUENTIAL',RECORDTYPE='STREAM_LF' use text records terminated by LF

ACCESS='SEQUENTIAL',RECORDTYPE='STREAM_CR' use text records terminated by CR

ACCESS='SEQUENTIAL',RECORDTYPE='STREAM' use text records terminated by CRLF

ACCESS='STREAM' treat the file as a binary stream without anything (but 
this is not available in VMS !!)

> Keep it simple. Just use STREAM,

ACCESS='STREAM' is not available on VMS

ACCESS='SEQUENTIAL',RECORDTYPE='STREAM' append CRLF which is not better
than appending LF and actually a bit unlogical on *nix.

Arne