[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[John Dallman]

In article <4e4ac776-f43f-4a84-8846-7fd0b6d949een at googlegroups.com>,
osuvman50 at gmail.com (David Jones) wrote:

> Open source software ports often comes with the restriction that it 
> only works with stream-LF files. Maybe they should add a flag to
> directory files that if set only allows it to contain stream-LF 
> or directory files.

People used to UNIX or Windows generally find the other VMS file types
baffling and confusing. I got used to the idea, but never made use of
them, since my employers already had fewer customers on VMS than they did
UNIX when I joined, and the disparity only increased. 

John