[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rslath$1iso$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajhøj?=
<arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> >> 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,
> 
> HTTP has the Content-Type header.
> 
> If that is text/plain or text/something then the client
> knows it is text.
> 
> And a VMS client can treat it appropriately including
> writing a file with rfm:var.

The question is why sometimes it worked but occasionally not.