Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU!sasaki
From: sasaki@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU (Marty Sasaki)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax
Subject: stream_lf files produced by GNU Emacs
Message-ID: <8610310410.AA18691@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 21:31:03 EST
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8610310410.AA18691
Posted: Thu Oct 30 21:31:03 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Nov-86 04:29:20 EST
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 18
Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa

The current fix to GNU Emacs to avoid a bug in the C RTL is to use
stream_lf files instead of normal carriage_return files. Recently, I
found two reasons why this is not a good thing.

The first is simple, if you are doing any work at all using the RSX
AME (I have been doing RSX-11s and DECNET-11s sysgens) you have to
convert the files from stream_lf to normal. Otherwise, none of the RSX
utilities (with the exception of TECO) can read the files.

The second reason is interesting and points out a bug somewhere in
VMS. If you create a file in stream_lf with no lf as the last
character in the last record and you pass the file through the PL/1
compiler, RMS does a bugcheck and blows the process away.
----------------
  Marty Sasaki				uucp:   harvard!sasaki
  Strategic Information			arpa:	sasaki@harvard.harvard.edu
  80 Blanchard Road			bitnet: sasaki@harvunxh
  Burlington, MA 01803			phone:	617-273-5500