INFO.TXT, was Re: [HECnet] UPDATE: HECNET.HLP file for VMS systems

Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes: On 2012-12-31 08:08, sampsa at mac.com wrote: Funny thing about LEGATO's INFO.TXT - my parser looks for the .BEGIN-HECNET-INFO tag and deletes all text after that. I should probably make a manual HLP file for LEGATO, Bob you OK with that? LEGATO's INFO.TXT have real yucky file attributes and a real yucky file format. :-) (What on earth was used to produce it???) Stream_CR typically surfaces with files coming from WEENDOZE. Directory LEGATO::SYS$SPECIFIC:[FAL$SERVER] 31-DEC-12 13:59:07 INFO.TXT;1 Size: 8./35. Created: 08-JUL-10 10:54:52 Owner: [000376,000373] Revised: 27-DEC-12 19:24:34(6.) Expires: <none_specified> File protection: System:RE, Owner:RE, Group:RE, World:RE File organization: Sequential File attributes: Allocation=0 Record format: Stream-CR, no maximum defined Record attributes: Carriage return What does it mean if you have stream-CR and attribute Carriage Return? I mean, yes, each record is separated by a CR, and then what? Add an additional CR at the end of each line? "Record format" refers to the data in the file. Stream_CR means that the records are delineated with a <carriage-return> character. RMS will then populate its internal buffers and the user's buffer upon a $GET with the current record data up to the <carriage-return> character. RMS internal handlers discard this <carriage-return> and update the NRP (Next Record Pointer) leaving it pointing after the <carriage-return> to a subsequent (assuming there is one) record. "Record attributes" refer to how to present the record to the application that performed the $GET to read the record. With "Record attributes" set to "Carriage return", RMS will synthesize a record with <carriage-return> and <line-feed>. If the "Record format" is VFC (Variable Format Control), this synthesis is over-ruled by the format in the VFC header of each and every record. This is fugly. On VMS, I would typically read a file like this into TECO and then, EX (exit) to write out a new file that will have typical VMS RMS file attributes. $ EDITT/TECO <the-file> *EX$$ <-- the $ is echoed by TECO when entring an escape $ (ie. escape => CTRL-[) -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.