[Simh] Transferring the licence file to the VAX emulator

[dave porter]

>From: Paul Koning
>Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 12:40

>That's odd, I thought that (on VMS) you didn't have any choice about using 
>RMS.
>Well, not unless doing raw block I/O.

That is how I recall it; it was RMS or else use ACP/XQIOP block I/O.

>Stream is one of the formats supported by RMS, exactly as fixed and 
>variable records
>(with prefix length) are.  Actually, stream comes in three flavors, 
>depending on
>whether the record delimiter is LF, CR, or CR/LF.  RMS-11 also supports 
>these, FWIW.

>So unless license manager goes out of its way to enforce a particular 
>record format
>for its input files, I would think it "should just work", RMS should read 
>the on-disk
>format and deliver the records (lines) according to the encoding described 
>by the file attributes.

Inasmuch as I correctly recall all these arcana, it *should* just work.  I'm 
guessing
that the problem we're discussing is that the RMS format and attribute 
fields are
not set correctly for the file's actual content; e.g., RMS thinks it's 
VAR-CR but there
are nevertheless embedded LFs.