[HECnet] Funky file formats, et al...

[Bob Armstrong]

   There   s something else going on here.   I   m not sure who originally analyzed the file to decide that the format was Stream-CR (although given that the analysis was done on RSX, we can probably guess :-)
  
  
>On 2012-12-31 14:59, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
>> Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>>  
>>> On 2012-12-31 08:08, sampsa at mac.com wrote:
>>>> Funny thing about LEGATO's INFO.TXT - my parser looks for the .BEGIN-HECNET-INFO tag and deletes all text after that.
>>>>  
>>>> I should probably make a manual HLP file for LEGATO, Bob you OK with that?
>>>  
>>> LEGATO's INFO.TXT have real yucky file attributes and a real yucky
>>> file format. :-) (What on earth was used to produce it???)
>>  
>> Stream_CR typically surfaces with files coming from WEENDOZE.
>  
>Ah. Yes, that would be a possible, source, I guess. But I find Stream_CR a but surprising.
> Maybe I'm just too ignorant of VMS formats here. But isn't there a plain Stream as well
> (which also exists in RSX), in which records are terminated by CR+LF, and which is what
> I would expect a Windows machine to produce...
>  
>>> Directory LEGATO::SYS$SPECIFIC:[FAL$SERVER]
>>> 31-DEC-12 13:59:07
>>>  
>>> INFO.TXT;1
>>>                                                   Size:   8./35.                     Created: 08-JUL-10 10:54:52
>>>                                                   Owner: [000376,000373]                   Revised:
>>> 27-DEC-12 19:24:34(6.)
>>>                                                                                                   Expires: <none_specified>
>>>       File protection:           System:RE, Owner:RE, Group:RE, World:RE
>>>       File organization:       Sequential
>>>       File attributes:           Allocation=0
>>>       Record format:               Stream-CR, no maximum defined
>>>       Record attributes:       Carriage return
>>  
  
   The thing is, the file isn   t Stream-CR     it   s Stream-LF   
  
$ dir info.txt;1
  
Directory SYS$SPECIFIC:[FAL$SERVER]
  
INFO.TXT;1
                               8/35                     8-JUL-2010 10:54:52.34   [DECNET,FA   (RE,RE,RE,RE)
  
$ analyze/rms info.txt;1
...
RMS FILE ATTRIBUTES
  
               File Organization: sequential
               Record Format: stream-LF
               Record Attributes:   carriage-return
               Maximum Record Size: 0
               Longest Record: 174
...
  
The analysis uncovered NO errors.
  
ANA/RMS INFO.TXT;1
  
   So the stuff about Stream-CR is bogus and a red herring, and I don   t know why Sampsa had trouble.
  
Bob