[Info-vax] Basic again

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/11/2024 10:35 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-03-11 at 09:34 -0400, bill wrote:
>> I think what he wants is an explanation of why the behavior is
>> different than on any other machine.  :-)

I wanted to know why it was different from Pascal and
different from "common expectation".

>> Yes, I tried it with other versions of basic and Pascal and got
>> the behavior Arne was looking for.  Sadly, at t he moment I don't
>> have a VMS system running to play with it there.
> 
> CGI is Unix and really wants LF+CR but VMS strips away one of these
> characters so it never looks like a LF+CR sequence at the other end.
> 
> All that's needed is for him to output as raw rather than "cooked".

I had one problem with CGI and Apache.

I solved that problem by sending extra CRLF with Pascal.

And then I got a new problem because that solution did not work
with Basic.

And the Basic problem can be demonstrated with plan terminal
output.

If I could solve the original CGI Apache problem in a way that
did not require extra CRLF then that would make it work for
both Pascal and Basic.

But I would still be curious to know why Basic is eating that CRLF.

For the CGI problem I used Simons suggestion and moved on.

Instead of:

print "..." + chr$(13) + chr$(10)
print ""

then:

print "..." + chr$(13)
print chr$(10) + ""

Arne