[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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