[Info-vax] Basic again

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/11/2024 1:28 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:04:15 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Why are there no empty line between YYY and ZZZ in the Basic example??
> 
> Because two different language implementation teams came to two different
> decisions about how to map character streams onto VMS’ insistence that
> files be made out of records.

I see VMS Basic IO as record oriented and not stream oriented.

And I was not expecting any "mapping". I was expecting
PRINT to format an internal buffer with the data provided
and call SYS$PUT without any attempts to modify the data
provided.

The reality is observable different.

Arne