[Info-vax] Alpha Community licenes.
Steven Schweda
sms.antinode at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 12:47:23 EDT 2022
> I was talkning about readme files and source code from VMS kits in
> general. [...]
I don't know what that means.
> [...] I have no idea what the antinode files specifically look like.
I invite you to investigate. Preferably before further discussing
the inevitability of an easily avoidable problem.
> Of course usual CR/LF or CR delimted files are usually OK.
Of course, "usually" is not good enough
> But VMS variable records (with that length paramater at the start)
> usually just becomes a mess on Windows.
Well, duh. VSI has already demonstrated that this job can be done
badly. And they didn't need variable-length records to do it.
So far as I know, the methods which I use to build my kits escape
such defects, whether or not you bother to look at them.
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