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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-01-01 16:55, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2013-01-01 16:42, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2013-01-01 16:25, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2012-12-31 19:36, Bob Armstrong wrote:
    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 :-)

Cool. This is become more weird all the time.
WHat I reported was what was shown when doing a directory over DECnet.
It's the information VMS presents. RSX is not really involved.
What happens if you do a directory showing the attributes over DECnet on
a VMS node?

I sould say that I don't *think* RSX is involved more than just printing
out what it receives from the VMS node, but I might of course be wrong
in that.

I think we have VMS machines with guest accounts. I'm going to test
using one of those.

To reduce speculation slightly. From a VMS machine, looking at
LEGATO::INFO.TXT;1, it claims that it is Stream_LF, so obviously the
"Stream_CR" message must be produced (I assume) in RSX. So it appears
that RSX have something wrong in the interpretation of which is which.
I'm going to read up more on the file access protocol to understand
exactly how it works here, and then I'm ready to declare a bug in NFT on
RSX.
After that, I guess the next step would be to try and fix it. I wonder
it that also implies that the deblocking is done in RSX, which then
don't strip the LF out since it thinks it in a Stream_CR. That would be
plausible.

Bob, please keep your "old" INFO.TXT around. It will be a good test case when I try to fix RSX...

	Johnny