[Info-vax] Basic again

[Dan Cross]

In article <usn0gu$3kkpg$1 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 3/11/2024 1:28 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:04:15 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Why are there no empty line between YYY and ZZZ in the Basic example??
>> 
>> Because two different language implementation teams came to two different
>> decisions about how to map character streams onto VMS’ insistence that
>> files be made out of records.
>
>I see VMS Basic IO as record oriented and not stream oriented.
>
>And I was not expecting any "mapping". I was expecting
>PRINT to format an internal buffer with the data provided
>and call SYS$PUT without any attempts to modify the data
>provided.
>
>The reality is observable different.

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	- Dan C.