[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <86451ba8-0eff-446f-a28d-41347e52cb94n at googlegroups.com>,
"geze... at rlgsc.com" <gezelter at rlgsc.com> writes: 

> WADR, for a start, please post the output of DIRECTORY/FULL. 

Will do if I can't solve the problem quickly.  The RFM is STM, though as 
I mentioned EDT sees <CR> at the end of each non-empty line, and after 
each such line there is an extra empty line.

> If I cannot fix the problem with a simple SET FILE/ATTRIBUTE, I
> frequently find that TECO allows me to quickly write a command string to
> fix things. 

There are some cases where just opening the file in TECO and saving it 
does the trick.  :-)

To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, any sufficiently baroque editor is 
indistinguishable from magic.