[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/31/20 1:58 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <rsl4jt$7ui$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> 
>>> I would love to know where the original file that started this
>>> discussion came from and how it ended up on a VMS Systems.
>>
>> Well, yes, Phillip is rather good at providing mysteries for us to
>> figure out.  It sure would have been reasonable for him to lay out
>> precisely the entire sequence of events from start to finish.
> 
> That would take more time than it is worth.  Suffice it to say that they
> were uploaded via a shaky http connection.
> 

Believe it or not, that goes a long way towards explaining what
happened and what you got.  HTTP does not have a concept of
ASCII/BINARY.  Transferring "text" files from none VMS systems
to VMS systems using HTTP is bound to result in at least the
CR+LF|LF+CR|CR|LF problem and, depending on the sending system
even stranger results are possible,

bill