INFO.TXT, was Re: [HECnet] UPDATE: HECNET.HLP file for VMS systems

[Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-]

Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes: 

On 2012-12-31 17:42, Bob Armstrong wrote:
But I totally stand by my claim that this is broken. :-)

    Well, since VMS and VMS RMS have no problems with this file, it's arguable
about which end is "broken" ...   However, I have converted this file to a
more conventional format for the lesser-abled operating systems out there
:-)

    Try it again.

Looks pretty now.

Yeah, VMS have no problems with it. VMS is somewhat forgiving internally 
when parsing that file, it would appear.
But you got to admit that Stream_CR on a file with not a single CR in it 
smells broken.

I doubt that is the case.   You didn't see it on your side after copying it
but, at that point, the file was probably hopelessly horked by RSX.



When the file was served with FAL to my RSX system, I just ended up with 
an extra LF per line, which is totally understandable, as there is an LF 
between each line in your file. The most interesting detail was that the 
LF was still interpreted as a record terminator, even though the format 
was Stream_CR. But the LF was not stripped off, which seems reasonable.

I bet had you just changed the attribute to Stream_LF, it would have 
worked just fine as well.

I'm not convinced that a '$ CONVERT/FDL="record; format stream_lf"' would
handle that file's contents correctly.



But even in original, it was just a slight eyebrow-raiser to get the 
extra LFs in there.

But they were probably free-of-charge! :)
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