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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Binary I/O on stdin/stdout?
Message-ID: <3295@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 1 Apr 88 21:30:46 GMT
References: <302@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <225800017@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <7565@brl-smoke.ARPA> <8036@elsie.UUCP> <3221@haddock.ISC.COM> <2500@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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Summary: VMS stream-LF

In article <2500@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>[In VMS] the default type of a file opened from a C program is stream-LF,
>which uses records terminated by linefeeds, and does not distinguish between
>text and binary formats at all, acting like UNIX and POSIX files.

The fact that it's called "stream-LF" (as distinct from "stream-CR" or just
"stream") suggests that the newlines which terminate the records have some
significance to the OS.  Is it legal, for example, to write 70000 characters
without a newline?  If not, this doesn't seem like an acceptable format for
binary mode.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint