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

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

On Jan 2, 2013, at 5:25 AM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:


El 02/01/2013, a les 11:04, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> va escriure:

Does anyone have an RSTS/E system (or TOPS-20), and could report how the file appears to be, from their point of view?

I don't know how to use RMSDSP against a full DECNET filespec, but a NFT DIR/FU shows this (in RSTS/E):

Directory 2.1::SYS$SPECIFIC:[FAL$SERVER]
Name         .Typ                   Size         Prot       Access       Date       Time         UIC

INFO         .TXT;2       8/10P             < 42>   31-Dec-12 31-Dec-12 07:20 [000376,000373]
RF:VAR   FO:SEQ   USED=8:150   RECSI=174   CC:IMP
INFO         .TXT;1       8/35P             < 42>   27-Dec-12 08-Jul-10 10:54 [000376,000373]
RF:UDF   FO:SEQ   USED=8:64   RECSI=174   CC:IMP

Total of 16/45 blocks in 2 files.                                                                                                                                                             

The ;1 version lists as RD:UDF. I guess that is "record format: undefined". 

Yes, that's what it means.   That's different from stream, never mind stream_cr or stream_lf.   RSTS should understand stream format -- after all, it exists partly because that's the native format of RSTS (though I think it was actually introduced to support Unix better).

A network capture would be very interesting, since the evidence so far is all over the map.

	paul