[Info-vax] wrong file format

Craig A. Berry craigberry at nospam.mac.com
Thu Dec 24 12:57:11 EST 2020


On 12/24/20 10:15 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?=  <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>> Well, *IF* it is the actuall *content* that is "wrong". If not, that
>> is not the right solution. Why mess with the content if it is OK?
> 
> Because it will take five minutes to write a short script to change the
> contents, and it is likely to take longer than that to figure out what
> the correct file format is and to change it.
> 
> I assume currently it is appearing to be a stream_lf file?

He said the record format was stm, not stmlf.  If it were stmlf he
wouldn't be having these problems.  Apparently if you write CRLF to a
file with stream record format it creates two lines but leaves the CR as
data in the first line.  See my previously-posted reproducer.



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