[Info-vax] VSI roadmap

[terry-...@glaver.org]

On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 10:47:38 AM UTC-4, David Jones wrote:
> To support any number of Unix applications reading of files, the C runtime 
> includes fgets() to return what is logically a record. So what?

That fails woefully even on some text file formats. I probably sound like I'm beating a dead horse, but go look at ckvfio.c for an idea of what is really needed to get text lines out of RMS regardless of the file format. For those who say "RMS contains all of the necessary info", go look at how True BASIC stores the source code for user-written programs (hint: RMS undefined).

In addition to doing the C-Kermit work myself, I hit the Info-ZIP people with a clue-by-four to get rid of the abomination that was BILF.