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From: reh@ccd700.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: RECORD ATTRIBUTE PROBLEMS.
Message-ID: <691@ccd700.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 12:34:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: ccd700.691
Posted: Wed Sep 23 12:34:27 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 13:23:23 EDT
References: <8709190918.AA00746@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Distribution: world
Organization: Ford CCD, Dearborn Michigan
Lines: 28
Summary: seems to work right to me

In article <8709190918.AA00746@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, JWMANLY@AMHERST.BITNET ("John W. Manly") writes:
> printed.  For example, a fortran format file with the following records:
>        "$QUESTION"
>        " ANSWER"
>Should produce the following characters:  "<LF>QUESTION<LF>ANSWER<CR>" However,
> if you copy this to a terminal in "display control" mode, you see:
>         "<LF>QUESTION<CR><LF>ANSWER<CR>".   Why is that extra <CR> in there?
> Has anybody seen this before?  Does anybody have a better theory as to the
> symptoms?  DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHY THIS IS HAPPENING?
> BITNET: JWMANLY@AMHERST                   John W. Manly

The way I read the manual, the conversion is:
" line" means <LF>line<CR>
"0line" means <LF><LF>line<CR>   (or <LF><CR><LF>line<CR> ?)
"1line" means <FF>line<CR>
"+line" means line<CR>
and any other character (or a zero length line) is treated as a space.
Therefore: "$QUESTION"
	   " ANSWER"
converts to <LF>QUESTION<CR><LF>ANSWER<CR>
I hope that this helps.
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