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From: egisin%watmath.waterloo.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (Eric Gisin)
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Subject: Re: Converting Stream_LF files?
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> Hi,
> 	Does anyone have a program or FDL file to convert a Stream_Lf file to
> a nice  normal file so that commands like TYPE FOO.BAR and COPY FOO.BAR TT:
> will work?  Any language would be instructive.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris Lent

The only problems I've seen with stream-lf file occur when the file
doesn't have a newline as the final character or when a record
(delimited by newlines) is too big for the application's buffer.
The first case can be checked and fixed with a simple program in C:
	/* the following return values should be check for errors */
	f = fopen(file, "r+w");
	fseek(f, -1, 2);	/* seek to last byte */
	if (getc(f) != '\n') {
		fprintf(stderr, "Appended \\n\n");
		fseek(f, 0, 2);	/* seek to EOF */
		putc('\n', f);
	}
	fclose(f);
I haven't tested the above, and seem to recall VAXC IO may have some bugs
regarding "r+w" file access.

Are there any other problems with stream-lf file created by C?
I've used them extensively (on VMS V4).  Note the message EDT
gives when editing a stream-lf file is just a meaningless warning.

	Eric Gisin, egisin@math.waterloo.{csnet,edu}