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? Johnny