[Simh] Transferring the licence file to the VAX emulator

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Mon Dec 17 19:58:43 EST 2018


On 2018-12-17 22:54, Paul Koning wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Dec 17, 2018, at 3:04 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>
>> Actually, VMS don't natively have any record terminators for text files.
>> So lines terminated by CR, LF, CR+LF or whatever, are all wrong.
> 
> Huh?  For VMS, "native" is any file format that RMS32 supports.  In VMS V1, that means either fixed or variable length records, but sometime later stream-CR, stream-LF, and stream-CRLF record format support was added both to RMS32 and RMS11.

Right. I put that a bit wrong. Traditionally, the normal text file 
format was/is variable length records with implied CRLF. I should have 
said that rather than "natively".

   Johnny

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