[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-12-29 kl. 23:05, skrev Dirk Munk:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 12/29/20 9:21 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> Den 2020-12-29 kl. 14:35, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
>>>> In article <rsfarr$smk$1 at dont-email.me>, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl>
>>>> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>> I tried for about 45 minutes---all the suggestions posted here!  It was
>>>>>> about 100 MB, so not all were quick to check.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the end, I managed to transfer it again (don't ask!) and somehow,
>>>>>> magically, it was OK.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I've dealt with problems like these before, usually caused by
>>>>> applications that were not written for VMS.
>>>>>
>>>>> You need to have a bit of a feeling for the different file types of VMS
>>>>> to fix these problems, but if you have that, it's very simple to solve
>>>>> these little puzzles.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know how many times I've used SET FILE/ATTR or CONVERT or TECO
>>>> to fix things like this.  I can usually look at the contents, look at
>>>> DIR/FULL, and see what needs to be done if they don't match, but this
>>>> was somehow different.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Nice that it was fixed! And no, I do not belive in magic... :-)
>>
>>
>> And, just so people don't think, based on earlier comments, that
>> Unix is somehow immune, I frequently have to remove "^M" characters
>> from text files on Unix. Unix's only saving grace in this regard is
>> that the solution is trivial.  :-)
>>
>> bill
>>
> No, of course Unix is not immune. Using <lf> or <cr> (Windows) as record 
> terminator is a rather silly idea. It means that you can't use those 
> characters in a record, and you have to scan the contents of a file for 
> those characters. Simply writing the length of a record at the beginning of 
> that record is far better solution.

Having a <LF> or a <CR> in text files seems rather logical to me.
What else, if you want either a line feed or a carriage return?

But yes, there are other ways to specify and delimiting a "line of text",
if you have a system suporting that.

Now, if that "record" is something else than a "line of text"...