[Info-vax] RMS - Wish list

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/19/2021 7:28 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 7:22:28 PM UTC+13, tink... at gmail.com wrote:
>> Another wish, get DCL to default to VAR not VFC files, or possibly STMLF. I'm sure 40years
>> ago there was a good reason for VFC but now not so much.
> 
> The likely reason being this was the (only?) way to represent FORTRAN carriage control.

????

The question was about DCL not Fortran.

And Fortran carriage control is not RFM=VFC but RAT=FTN and actual
control in first data byte (and default for Fortran text files
is RFM=VAR).

Arne