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 19:09, Bob Armstrong wrote:
I'm not convinced that a '$ CONVERT/FDL="record; format stream_lf"'
would handle that file's contents correctly.

I'm pretty sure it will. Bob, could you try?

    Yes, CONVERT on VMS is perfectly happy to convert the original file.
FWIW, that's how I created the "conventional" variable record length version
that RSX likes too.

Actually, what I had in mind was just changing the attributes of the 
existing file. A convert actually proves very little. Even less if your 
file actually was Stream_LF, which it looked like locally.
And that would make total sense, considering the contents of the file.

So, I wonder why it looks like Stream_CR when looked at from RSX. Does 
it look "correct" of looking over DECnet from a VMS machine.

And the LF is the character that sits in the file. I think we can all 
agree on that.

It, at this point, smells like the FAL listener on VMS is the thing that 
would get it wrong, but this is just guessing on my part...

It's all speculation at this point.   Post the output of '$ DUMP/BLOCKS' as
well as '$ ANALYZE/RMS/SUMMARY' of the original file that had spawned this
discussion.

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