Newsgroups: comp.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!kodak!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: How many different ASCII textfile formats are there? Message-ID: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <1991May27.162515.665@looking.on.ca> Date: Tue, 28 May 91 14:49:11 GMT In article <1991May27.162515.665@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > I'm making a program that maps textfiles, and I would like to hear of > any obscure ASCII textfile formats that might exist out there. DEC uses variable-record files, where a line consists of a character count followed by that many bytes. There are also DEC file modes where a line number is included as well. Some older systems (MODCOMP, for example) use ASCII 80-column card images (blank padded, no terminators). Luckily, it's unlikely that you'll have to deal with 80-column card images, and DEC's C runtime library translates variable-record files to stream-linefeed format. -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"